Charlotte Rampling famous quotes

If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Real #Feelings #Vibrations

I'd had a French education for three years, my father being in the army. From 9 to 12, I went to French school. I've been sort of part of the culture, part of the geography, since I was quite young - the imprint was there. And I loved it.
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Father #School #Army

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
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Events #Tragic #Term

I can be seen as not being very communicative, or rather mysterious, or distant, or rather cold - all those things. Yeah, I know I can give off that impression. So I am that, too.
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Giving #Mysterious #Cold

I can occupy myself quite easily with what's going on inside me.
-- Charlotte Rampling

I got the O.B.E because I represent England outside of England more...but thinking of me as an actor, I haven't done all the classical theatre, all the great roles. Think of Helen Mirren and me. Helen, who I adore, is a friend - should be Dame. I am the rebel, the revolutionary on the side.
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Thinking #Theatre #England

I am not qualified to be a Dame. To be Dame you have to represent England in a way that I don't.
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Dames #Way #England

I've always been monogamous - [within it] I've been in love with people, but very platonically. For me, monogamous love is about learning how to be able to trust someone completely; so you need to be able to think you can trust them. But that doesn't mean you can't have extraordinary feelings for other people and not feel guilty about them, but not necessarily go and wreck marriages and consummate, and you don't have to do all that.
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Mean #Love Is #Thinking

By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Trying #Desperate #Tragic

You don't need the painful memories, because either you've resolved them. Denying always makes them want to come back. Denial is a mechanism that doesn't work. But allowing them to come back in little by little, those memories, you can begin to be quite comfortable with them, and it's even nice to have that as part of the map of your life.
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Memories #Nice #Needs

Because one has the animal instinct to seek out the people that suits one - you see people that go on life's journeys and get muddled along the way. If you look at their lives they've always gone with the wrong people... can you say it's the wrong people - I don't know...
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Animal #Journey #People

What beauty brings is huge. It brings great privilege, great power and potential to do many things. If you are beautiful, doors open for you; people smile at you; you are accepted in places where others aren't. So the relationship that people have with beauty, in a sense, is almost deforming.
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Beautiful #Doors #People

When I take on something , I take the whole thing on.It's not even a question of separating "Oh, am I going to be naked" I go with my whole person.
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Naked #Persons

When I moved to Paris in the '70s, there wasn't very much going on in film in England. So when I started doing French films, there was a natural movement toward the kind of films I wanted to do. It wasn't the reason I came, but it so happened that I stepped into a time and place that actually corresponded to what I wanted. That sometimes happens in life. And it was rather beautiful.
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Beautiful #Paris #Movement

Cinema d'auteur, cinema about people, about emotions. About la difficulté d'être, the difficulty of being, existential problems. That's what the nouvelle vague is. The early '60s was all about that.
-- Charlotte Rampling

#People #Cinema #Emotion

The '60s in London obviously brought about the explosion of music, the Beatles especially, and then the Rolling Stones and other forms of music, and then fashion and photography and films - kitchen-sink dramas we called them at that time, which was our nouvelle vague in Britain, films that talk about real life.
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Photography #Fashion #Real

I felt very special in Paris, more special than I felt in London. I love London for different reasons. I've always been close to London, being English. But somehow there's something special about living as an Englishwoman in Paris.
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Paris #Special #London

Close girlfriends I don't have necessarily, as an actress. Perhaps there is a thing of competition there, you know, when you're doing the same things, and you're the same age. I could be with younger actors, but woman of my age probably - there is and there isn't, one doesn't like to think of it, but I think there is a sense of competition. Which is good, also.
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Girlfriend #Thinking #Competition

I must explore desert ground and see what can grow. But there are limits. I know in my heart what I would never do.
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Heart #Desert #Limits

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.
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Cutting #People #Inner Strength

Fashion is not trivial. It's a huge industry and a big part of our lives. Fashion is about us - how we look and present ourselves, how we can change ourselves, and our perceptions. You can dress up to be quite glorious creatures - it's all a very important part of life.
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Fashion #Perception #Important

Ever since I was a small child, Ive had this feeling - its in my nature, and so its not even pretentious - that if everyones going one way, I will go the other, just by some kind of spirit of defiance.
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Children #Feelings #Way

You go though a period of immense pain when reality meets the dream.
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Dream #Pain #Reality

The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Musical #Movement #Body

To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve.
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Grieving #Taught #Difficult

You can never really judge your work because once it's done, it's done.
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Judging #Done

You cannot watch yourself dispassionately.
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Watches

Training is fabulous because it gives you a basis, a strong structure, so that when you're unbelievably nervous and you think that you can't get a word out, you will get the word out.
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Strong #Thinking #Giving

I think you have to earn beauty. You can use it or abuse it however you want when you`re young. It`s a God-given gift. You have a visiting card - you can go into any room and someone will come and talk to you. But I`ve always thought from very early on that you have to be careful with that - not being vain or narcissistic. Have fun, but don`t be obsessed with it.
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Fun #Thinking #Abuse

One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either.
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Women #Eye #Reason

European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Character #Directors #Depth

Doing cinema is not about watching yourself
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Cinema

French women have been made beautiful by the French people - they're very aware of their bodies, the way they move and speak, they're very confident of their sexuality. French society's made them like that
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Beautiful #Moving #People

I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Thinking #Actors #Opinion

A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Book #Skins #Film

I am fascinated by the whole process of what it's like to be alive, whether it's unbelievably uncomfortable and horrible or whether it's quite nice
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Nice #Alive #Process

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
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Running #Believe #Looks

I did that film just so I could kiss Robert Redford.
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Kissing #Film

I regret not having enough training, I trained for a year at The Royal Court, but I very quickly went off to do films and television.
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Regret #Years #Training