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I am a very shy person in life, very reserved, but you know, it's Bertolucci. I've seen Last Tango and it's not pornographic, it's not vulgar, it's not sick, so I trusted him. He's a master of love and eroticism, but it's good because I stopped being self-conscious. I felt like I was on drugs or anaesthetised because you have to be. You have to let yourself slip away and forget everything, forget the sound guy and all that.

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

French movies are much more realistic. I don't see why we can't see naked people onscreen, but can see a baby killed in America. It's quite strange. Too puritan, too uptight.

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

I don't have a problem with someone having plastic surgery, but I think it's crazy for everyone to have the same body.

I was very, very nervous about the naked scenes. I'm very shy and reserved. But it was Bertolucci and I have seen Last Tango. It's not pornographic. He's a master of eroticism. I stopped being self-conscious. You have to forget everything.

It's a way to exteriorize all my shit. To scream and cry and laugh on-screen, it's almost like black magic. You can do anything. I'm a dreamer, so that's a good job for me.

Onstage is the only place I can fully express myself. It's magic.

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.

I wanted to become an actress. I want to experience all those lives.

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

I'm very reserved in real life, but when Bertolucci asks you to do a movie, you do it. Nudity is just another costume. Perverts might think otherwise.

I don't understand why you can't see naked people on screen but we can see a baby being killed. It's quite strange.

I hope after Kingdom Of Heaven, I'll have more opportunities and more choices. I hope to get more work. But I'm very picky. I take my time and I just want to enjoy what I'm doing. I turned down a lot of stuff, but we'll see what happens. I had more propositions after The Dreamers to play some femme fatales, but I try to avoid that.

If there's a wonderful script in France, I'll definitely pursue my career there. It all depends on the role and the director. I don't want to be a Hollywood star. I just want to do my job and enjoy it. My aim is to find my true identity and to remain true to myself.

Yes, I am a dreamer. I live in another planet.

I'm just an actress. I want to keep the mystery. I mean, I know today that we have to talk about our private lives, and if you want to see me on the toilet, it's the same thing as talking. I don't know, I think that it's killing all of the mystery. The actresses in the '30s and '40s didn't talk about their private lives, and I think that it's much better if you keep the magic.

I'm not morbid or gothic.

In life I can keep a certain distance from people. I'm rather reserved, and people might think that I'm very haughty and impassive. But it's just a mask of protection.

I don't like sexy outfits.

I've been terribly spoiled at the beginning of my career. Even if, at a certain point, it's a poisoned gift. Because, then, how can I not become picky?

I'm not part of my era. I think people are very modern, they dress badly, there is no grace anymore. We have lost the dream.

I read a lot of scripts and if I find them interesting - by the way, there are only a very few that attract me - I let people know that I would like to be in the film. Unfortunately, it's almost always actresses like Scarlett Johansson or Natalie Portman who get the roles.

I don't have many French offers. It's strange, I don't know why. I only receive offers to act in foreign productions.

I'd rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don't know what's coming up for me, my ambition is not to be typecast. So I'm working on my English accent, as well as my American one. I don't want to be like 'Okay, I'm French, and I want to succeed in Hollywood!' Juliette Binoche has set a good example of what I want to do, because she works all over the world, and that's what I want to do as well.

I love walking in Paris. I love going to the movies and thinking of the movies. I love going to museums. I have a boring past actually.

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

There are a lot of people who want to be famous, singers, actors, nowadays and, you know, it's like a roller-coaster. And when you are very sensitive - I'm very sensitive - you have to be very strong, you know, you have to just not pay attention to the people who hate you, you know?

I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all.

I don't have a problem with someone having plastic surgery, but I think it's crazy for everyone to have the same body.

I'll need my whole lifetime to polish my craft.

My work method is very cerebral. I like to know everything about the character I'm going to play. I try to get in contact with her conscience, with the way she is and how she behaves, then I add some of my own life experience.

People say I'm a perfectionist, but I know that perfection doesn't exist.

A perfect man is the one who is able to understand and listen to a woman. And the first thing I'm attracted to is his voice.

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

Even when I'm not shooting a movie, I want to think that I'm somebody else, I'm creating somebody else in my head.

I realized that real life is more important than professional life. I take a distance. If I fail with something, I stand up again and I tell myself: it's not serious. I'm a fighter, not ambitious.

Sometimes people tell me in a sordid way: I saw you naked in The Dreamers. And they haven't seen me, but the character, because for an actress nudity is just another costume.

When I'm acting I feel blood in my veins. I prefer cinema to reality.

When people first meet me, they find me very odd. I keep myself at a distance, and I think that's why I'm so drawn to this profession. It allows me to wear a mask.

I am very self conscious of my body. I do not like looking at myself. I sleep in pyjamas. Even with my boyfriend, I can't sleep naked.

As a blonde, I felt very organized. As a brunette, I was more like myself. I had the impression it expressed my violence better.

My mother thinks acting is a cruel profession. And for years, I wouldn't even acknowledge to myself that I wanted to be an actress. I was afraid of measuring up.

I don't want to play the beautiful girl in the background. I want complex roles with many dimensions and colours.

I think all actors actors are very, how do you say it, “narciss-sistic”, and all want recognition. We all want that, of course, but, at the same time I want to disappear, you know. To hide...

It was wonderful to be surrounded by those actors - I could only aspire to their knowledge.

I'll need my whole lifetime to polish my craft.

I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all.

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

I'm worried because of my mother, she's going to see my performance and she's quite hard. She's going to see me naked. And my Dad, woah. Yeah, they're going to see me like a woman, you know?

In France, the auditions and the plays aren't good, they're too laid back. And I remember in the London school you had a voice teacher, you had an improvisation course, you had to study authors, you had a lot of things. In France, you just act in a lot of scenes, but it's too vague.

My father is a dentist. He has nothing to do with acting. He is proud of me. I come from a bourgeois family, like the family in The Dreamers.

My father is Swedish and my mother is French.

My mother did movies from the New Wave, but I was quite shocked I didn't know much about that period. Bernado showed us film of the demonstrations of the time.

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

It must be very shocking for the American people, but what I don't understand is why they are so crazy about that. I don't understand why you can't see naked people on screen but we can see a baby being killed. It's quite strange. They're too puritan, too uptight.

It's a way to exteriorize all my shit. To scream and cry and laugh on-screen, it's almost like black magic. You can do anything. I'm a dreamer, so that's a good job for me. Onstage is the only place I can fully express myself.

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.

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

Onstage, every night you create something new. Plus, you have your audience right there - it's like performing for the gods.

Sybilla suffers from numerous frustrations. She's an heroine, not a potiche.

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