Marion Cotillard

“Campaigning and acting aren't compatible. That's why Audrey Hepburn gave up acting. That's why Angelina Jolie will give up. I'm not ready to stop yet.”

“I'm affected by the characters I play, and sometimes they're hard to live with.”

“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.”

“In a way, I don't create anything; I just open myself to the character, and the character takes over. Of course, I'm aware of it, and I'm driving it, but I don't try to control it. If I try to control it, it goes wrong.”

“I cry watching 'Camille' with Greta Garbo. I have to say that - while it might sound weird - it will be weird, but there is one movie I always laugh in, and at the end of the movie, I always cry, and I saw it, like, 10 times. It's 'Step Brothers.'”

“We need to fight for women's rights, but I don't want to separate women from men. We're separated already because we're not made the same, and it's the difference that creates this energy in creation and love.”

“You can't work all your life.”

“My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.”

“I never analyzed whether I had a style or whether I didn't. I wouldn't be able to describe my style or even tell if I have one or not.”

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

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

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

“Before I was a mum, I could live in another dimension, create another world, and it wouldn't bother me if I was not totally available or totally myself. Today I cannot do that anymore.”

“My team puts forward a selection of dresses, and I choose the one I feel most natural in.”

“'Do I have a purpose.' Right. And of course you do. Otherwise, you wouldn't be on Earth. I really strongly believe that if we're here, it's for a reason.”

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

“What I do is doing movies and sharing movies.”

“When someone would come up to me in the street, I would either run away or burst into tears. I didn't know what to do. I don't think you're ever prepared for this.”

“You fall in love with someone, you don't know this person yet, and you get to know this person. That's what happens when I fall in love with a character, and I want to be this person.”

“If you give me a bass guitar and you ask me to improvise something, or even be with some musicians and follow them, I wouldn't be able to do it. And I want to change that.”