Marion Cotillard Quotes

I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.

I think that when you don't see the boundaries, you cross them without even knowing they exist in the first place.

I was raised with the idea of beauty in a different way. To me, it is something that really comes out of you and surrounds you.

I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.

You cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness.

I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.

Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered.

I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.

If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story.

I think you're where you have to be and I'm not a person who wants to control things too much because I love surprises.

It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else.

That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.

You have to invest if you want to restore balance to the world.

My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else.

Respect the place you live, be aware of the impact that you have on things.

I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.

What I like in this job is you can travel to many places, many imaginations.

I love to work this way - I love the time of preparation. If you feed yourself with all the information and you get to understand who the character is then you can really be her.

The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work.

I was born in Paris and raised in the suburbs and then lived in the countryside.

I think what we've experienced in the past is that people do like to be challenged.

I'm not a method actor, but I'm affected by the life I share my life with during shooting. It's always a very strange and special period for me.

Every Story is different, Every Movie is different, Every Director is different.

I AM VERY MOVED BY SURVIVORS. BY PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO OVERCOME A HANDICAP, A SITUATION, OR ANYTHING. VISITING THE HEARTS AND SOULS OF THOSE PEOPLE TEACHES ME A LOT ABOUT HUMANS AND HUMANITY.

I didn't like anything about myself - my looks, my personality. I was very, very angry.

I don't stick to special techniques, conscious techniques.

I would love to go into an animal's dream - like a lion's or a cat's. I'm sure that's pretty awesome.

The first thing, the main thing, about how I work is I need to understand the character.

When you are abandoned by two parents as a baby - wow, that is something to live with.

It was an amazing adventure, it was my dream to be in an American musical... I really hope you are going to love what you are going to see.

I don't live with my role, I'm a really normal person.

I don't think that I'm that sophisticated. Maybe I'm not aware of it, I don't know.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.

I'm always 100% committed to a character, a story and a director, and with Michael Mann it was 1,000%. I don't know how to explain this.

I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13.

I was shy. I was more than shy.

I think that you always learn something from working with good actors.

When you see yourself on video, you and your friends spending time on vacation, and they take a video, and then you see it, it's really disturbing.

I never thought that I would have to play an Indian, well half French, but an Indian woman in my life.

When I was little, there were so many people in my house. Everyone was enjoying themselves, rehearsing, having fun. It was like a playground.

Im so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldnt have dared to think I would work with one day.

I think we're lied to about a number of things.

I'm always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I'm going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job.

As an actress I just want to tell beautiful stories

It cannot be stressful. It just has to be fun. There are many, many things to stress for in this life -- not getting ready for a red carpet.

I've always known actors because my parents are actors on stage and so I lived in a very creative environment when I was a kid. All my life.

We lost this animal instinct that we used to have. We use a very low percentage of our instinct.

I think the Earth and everything around it is connected - the sky and the planets and the stars and everything else we see as a mystery.

I couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.