Audrey Tautou

“I am always surprised to be chosen by a director for a role because I never understand why they like me.”

“I know what I'm worth as an actress: not the best in the world, but not bad either.”

“I am not super-attached to my career.”

“I started off in this dreadful, vulgar film called 'The Libertine.' I was just learning. I needed the money.”

“I can be maternal with my friends.”

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

“The Da Vinci Code' was a great experience and I was lucky to be chosen, but I don't like the pressure that goes with all these big things. I don't want to be any more famous at all.”

“I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries.”

“I keep my wishes and dreams secret, like a child.”

“I would like to work with people whose films I really like: Walter Salles, Woody Allen, Julio Medem.”

“I think for everybody celebrity, fame, is a dream. People see it as a blessing.”

“To have a personal life is the minimum freedom you have to give to a human being.”

“I think if I was less exigent with myself, maybe I would be more productive, because I would put less pressure on my shoulders.”

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

“You are supposed to have a dream of walking the red carpet. But I'm really not like that. Because fame is... I don't think it is something interesting or precious.”

“Because I don't do five films a year, people maybe think that acting is not essential to my life. But if I worked any more than I do, I'd have no personal life.”

“What was weird for me after 'Amelie' was how people look at you. It moves all your relationships and sometimes even your intimate ones, and you don't understand why suddenly everything around you changes, because you are exactly the same person.”

“Art - be it painting, sculpture, music - they are all creations, they are creative acts. I consider a film, with everything that is involved in it, an art.”

“Some films are pure entertainment of course, but what interests me and what I want to do are projects that really make you think, that move you, that will bring you something that will stay with you for a while. I think films are essential to the intellectual awakening of people.”

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