Marion Cotillard famous quotes

I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Thinking #Feelings #Use

Usually when I start to work and to prepare the movie, some inspirations, different kind of human beings, it can be someone I know, someone I don't, a girl, a boy. So usually when I start, quite right away, some inspirations come.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Girl #Inspiration #Boys

As a teenager, I didn’t want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Teenager #People #Want

I think what we've experienced in the past is that people do like to be challenged.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Thinking #Past #People

I would love to go into an animal's dream - like a lion's or a cat's. I'm sure that's pretty awesome.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Dream #Cat #Animal

Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Men #Moon #Saws

Im so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldnt have dared to think I would work with one day.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Opportunity #Thinking #One Day

It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Spotlight #Refreshing #Situation

You have to invest if you want to restore balance to the world.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Balance #Want #World

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

#Hate #Simple #Understanding

When you see yourself on video, you and your friends spending time on vacation, and they take a video, and then you see it, it's really disturbing.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Vacation #Video #Spending Time

It was an amazing adventure, it was my dream to be in an American musical... I really hope you are going to love what you are going to see.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Dream #Adventure #Musical

When I was little, there were so many people in my house. Everyone was enjoying themselves, rehearsing, having fun. It was like a playground.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Fun #People #House

An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Artist #Normal #Normal Life

Respect the place you live, be aware of the impact that you have on things.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Impact

If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Dream #Sleep #Wake Up

Every Story is different, Every Movie is different, Every Director is different.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Stories #Directors #Different

I didn't like anything about myself - my looks, my personality. I was very, very angry.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Personality #Looks #Angry

I don't think that I'm that sophisticated. Maybe I'm not aware of it, I don't know.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Thinking #Sophisticated

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Play #Stories #Scripts

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

#Play #Half #Wells

When you are abandoned by two parents as a baby - wow, that is something to live with.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Baby #Two #Parent

I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Thinking #Stories #Emotion

I think the Earth and everything around it is connected - the sky and the planets and the stars and everything else we see as a mystery.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Stars #Thinking #Sky

I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Piano #Long #Lessons

I was shy. I was more than shy.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Shy

I think that when you don't see the boundaries, you cross them without even knowing they exist in the first place.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Thinking #Knowing #Firsts

I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Friendship #Thinking #Want

I don't live with my role, I'm a really normal person.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Normal #Roles #Persons

I don't stick to special techniques, conscious techniques.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Special #Sticks #Technique

I was born in Paris and raised in the suburbs and then lived in the countryside.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Paris #Born #Raised

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.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Jobs #Able #Scared

My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Long #Parent #Want

The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Thinking #Firsts #Moments

It cannot be stressful. It just has to be fun. There are many, many things to stress for in this life -- not getting ready for a red carpet.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Fun #Stress #Red

I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Views #Conspiracy #Share

I'll never approach a part in the same way again. Piaf taught me so much. In terms of my work, I think I'll enjoy it even more than before, because now I know that characters truly exist in their own right. I'll have a way to bring them even more intensely to life.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Character #Thinking #Way

I AM VERY MOVED BY SURVIVORS. BY PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO OVERCOME A HANDICAP, A SITUATION, OR ANYTHING. VISITING THE HEARTS AND SOULS OF THOSE PEOPLE TEACHES ME A LOT ABOUT HUMANS AND HUMANITY.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Heart #People #Soul

I think we’re lied to about a number of things,
-- Marion Cotillard

#Thinking #Numbers #Lied

That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Paris #World #Mystery

As an actress I just want to tell beautiful stories
-- Marion Cotillard

#Beautiful #Actresses #Stories