Audrey Tautou Quotes

Charm is more valuable than beauty. You can resist beauty, but you can't resist charm.

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises.

What we wear is the shell of who we are.

After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need.

I don't want to think my life as a career. I'm interested in my work only because of the meaning I can make.

I show through my movies that I can do something else. But I always play strong-minded characters. I think it's maybe because I'm like that. I love being by myself.

I wouldnt mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly dont want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean.

I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.

I'm not imagining me being the James Bond girl, because anyway I don't have the good maturation.

When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.

I'm not sure I'm quite ready to have someone be a prospector of jobs for me, because I believe there's some kind of destiny involved with meeting people... some things are just meant to happen.

People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.

Even if I have only ten more years in front of me, it's such an intensive life. I have the feeling that I have already lived three lives in three years.

I believe in God, but I am not sure to trust Him so much.

I've never sent a Tweet. I think I have an account but I don't know who runs it. I've never done one in my life.

You have to have the essential pleasure of making a movie. It's such a huge factor and adventure for a director because you really are the leader and the captain.

I like photography and writing and travel, so I have a lot of cerebral occupations. I am going to become a sailor and do a world tour on my yacht if I don't get any more work.

I'm very interested in people, in general.

I'm not sure that it's easy to find very interesting female characters in Hollywood movies.

I'm not inspired by any career because I don't have any expectations.

I don't want to think my life as a career.

I like actors who are themselves. I know in America you like actors who change their nose or wear a lot of wigs, and they like to take pretty girls and make them super ugly.

I've never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I've never had a desire to work there.

I'm not ready to do any compromises for my work.

I can be maternal with my friends.

I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.

When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it.

I like movies that have strong personalities, and Michel Gondry is so creative that his films are always something special to watch.

I think that if you do an American movie it's important to earn some money, but in a stupid way, to be respected.

I don't really know Hollywood, and I think that L.A. needs a bit of time to really know the city, because it's such a huge city.

It's difficult to feel that people are looking at you in the street. I don't like the fuss.

I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.

Usually, I read the script very often. I think that everything is hiding in the script.

What I like about theatre is the responsibility you have with your character.