Eva Green Quotes

Everyone wants to work in America. Maybe not blockbusters or Terminator, but to have the choice.

I want to travel. Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes.

I like characters who have strong facades and then have secrets. They have cracks.

I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.

I have my own style and don't really follow fashion, but I like leggings. They're easy to wear and can go with anything.

Don't be ashamed of who you are, embrace who you are.

I need to fall in love with someone. Sorry - I mean fall in love with something. I need to wake myself up.

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

I don't believe in awards. It's very good for the ego, I suppose.

Hmm, limelight... No, I'm not Sienna Miller or Angelina Jolie. I'm very lucky and happy, but I still find it very difficult to get good scripts and good roles. It's really a jungle out there.

I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders.

Most of the women in film are there to be beautiful to the man.

When people say 'You're so beautiful' it makes me want to kill myself! As an actress you want to be seen for what you do, for the characters you can play, otherwise I'd be a model

It's boring to be like everybody.

We all show facets, to your mother, or to your boyfriend, or a friend. You're always a bit different.

Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.

If you're weird, it's good to be weird.

I was very studious, too much. I would never go out at weekends. I was very serious. You should have seen me in class - I was blushing and sweating every time the teacher asked me something.

I love fashion from the 1930s and '40s - shoulder pads, high waists, things with structure. That is classy for me. Andrea Riseborough from the Madonna movie 'W.E.' had an amazing wardrobe.

I feel sick if I have to do something for the money. I can't breathe. I'm not proud of myself.

I'm not into social media. I'm like from another century.

In Los Angeles, I feel like the ugly duckling, like I'm from Venus or something.

I'm not really keen on men wearing perfumes. It's just a bit wrong! I don't find it sexy. I prefer essential oils - patchouli is nice.

For Tim Burton's birthday I gave him a rainbow beetle. He loved it!

I've always felt like I'm from another planet.

I'm very scared of water. When you don't see the water... I imagine monsters - stupid things.

People think I'm so strong, but I'm very shy.

I didn't know about the Bond girl thing. I was approached very quickly, boom, boom, boom, it happened.

Life's too short to wear high heels.

I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in boxes.

The worst is when men try too hard, because it's not very masculine. Your outfit has to look like 'Oh, I just grabbed that.' Not too calculated. Jeans, a t-shirt: the simpler the better.

Lots of shy people dress a bit too much. It's just kind of an armour. People say the same thing about me.

I love Ireland. I feel very at peace there. It's just magical and beautiful.

I feel like I'm 1,000. I don't feel I'm young enough a lot of the time.

All my jewelry has stories.

I don't watch anything I'm in. Not even on set. I won't go over to the monitor to watch what we've just shot. It's too terrible. I think I'm just very self-conscious.

It's quite hard to find a ballsy or complex character. So the roles I've taken are those. Lot's of people put me in the dark category.

To help people in the third world get educated and learn how to read and write is so important. I mean it is such an important human right.

For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins. Even when I'm not working, I'm always living in my own world, imagining characters.

My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It's very chic and elegant and classic.

In a Tim Burton movie, you know it's going to be something unusual, or a bit mad. Something "other."

For me, working out is nothing to do with looks. It's to let it all out - the stress, the self-consciousness - you think less; it makes you more centred.

There are ways of doing stunts without me. I get no pleasure putting my life in jeopardy just to get the shot. Life is too short for that nonsense.

At drama school, I always picked the really evil roles. It's a great way to deal with your everyday emotions.

When I'm not working I just like to be comfortable: I love black, nothing tight, no heels, no make-up - it's nice to be able to breathe!

I've never been very good talking about myself.

There's this shop in New York I go to; it has bones and fossils and insects that are like works of art. I have a few on my wall.

That is really the freedom that allows you to create something that is exciting because who knows what's true?

My father is Swedish and my mother is French.

I've always felt a bit weird, very shy.