Charlotte Rampling

“I think what we do best, in the artistic world, are the things where we're handicapped.”

“If you were to find all the people I've worked with and ask them what they think of me, they're all just going to say, 'Oh, wonderful', and it'll just be a lot of blah.”

“If you don't have a certain amount of stage fright, then it's not going to be that interesting. It's not going to have the inner vibration. I think screen work needs inner vibration.”

“Usually, watching yourself is pretty awful. People think we all love watching our own films. We don't. We cringe away from it.”

“Painting and photography keep the creative channel open, and for an actor, it's to keep alive, it's to keep awake, it's to keep watching, it's to keep feeling, it's to keep enjoying, to keep that sensuality of feeling alive.”

“I know I have great inner strength; I always have. I can blank things out, cut people out, and I know that I can go and live in a cave on my own if necessary.”

“A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all.”

“I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves.”

“For an actor, if you're not doing a job, you can't just practice acting. Your instrument is your whole person.”

“אמריקאים, מבחינה קולנועית, הם טכנאים מצוינים וזהו. אני לא חושבת שאוכל לעשות סרטים באמריקה. אנחנו מדברים באותה שפה, אבל ברמה הקולנועית אנחנו לא יכולים להבין אחד את השני.”

“זה לא שאני לא אוהבת את הוליווד, אלא שהוליווד לא מתאימה לי. אני אירופאית מאוד באישיות שלי, ומה שאני אוהבת לעשות לא עושים בהוליווד.”

“אני חושבת שרוב ההחלטות שעשיתי בקריירה שלי היו אינסטינקטיביות, ספונטניות ואינטואיטיביות, עם כל יוצר באופן אחר. אני לא מחפשת את התפקידים שאני עושה, הם מגיעים אליי.”

“הבמאים תמיד העדיפו את הצד האפל ואת המבט האפל שבי.”

“My style very much leans towards the masculine, but I think I am feminine in it - I like the feminine body in masculine shapes. The androgynous look suits me.”

“Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.”

“When I see a young girl, I can see why you would be attracted if you were a man. I remember when it was like that for me, too, and it was nice.”

“I could have carried on in comedy. But my life was dark.”

“A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin.”

“I think the reason I have secrets is because there are a lot of things I haven't been able to let out, and I'm able to let them out through the screen and this medium.”

“I haven't got ambitions. Actually, I'm determined not to die until I get very old. I want to be a great-great-great-grandmother.”