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It was right after I did Piaf, 'La Vie en Rose'. I started to take singing lessons and finding where I could go.
I was never really interested in fashion before I started to work with Dior. I didn't see fashion as an art form.
I think that when you don't see the boundaries, you cross them without even knowing they exist in the first place.
I never dreamt to be a princess in my life; I really dreamt to be an actress, but I dreamt of princesses on screen.
My first kiss was in the geography room, where you put all the maps. I actually don't know how to say it in English.
If you search and search and stop searching, then ultimately you'll find what you need. It is the experience of living.
I think you're where you have to be and I'm not a person who wants to control things too much because I love surprises.
When a script moves me, I find that I immediately understand a character. Of course not completely, but I do understand.
I am not very good at planning things, actually, but I believe that things happen when they need to and when they have to.
You cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness.
There are so many actresses that I love. I think Jennifer Lawrence is a prodigy. I think Elle Fanning is absolutely amazing.
There is something strange about me. I don't ever feel at ease in a group of people. I have to fight hard to overcome my fears.
I was raised with the idea of beauty in a different way. To me, it is something that really comes out of you and surrounds you.
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.
I couldn't identify with anyone. At school, I was considered very strange. I didn't understand the relationships between people.
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.
All of the characters I've had the chance to create are survivors. But we live in a world where surviving makes up most of what we do.
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.
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.
I'm always 100% committed to a character, a story and a director, and with Michael Mann it was 1,000%. I don't know how to explain this.
My parents definitely sparked something in me. I'm sure of it. I saw how happy and fulfilled they were, and I knew I wanted the same job.
Awards season is not something that I think about. What I enjoy a lot is knowing that people go and see the movie and they love the movie.
I'm so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldn't have dared to think I would work with one day.
As an actress, I always wanted to do movies, and I never dreamt about doing movies in America just because I didn't think it was possible.
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.
I've always known actors because my parents are actors on stage and so I lived in a very creative environment when I was a kid. All my life.
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.
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.
When I was little, there were so many people in my house. Everyone was enjoying themselves, rehearsing, having fun. It was like a playground.
I'm not a method actor, but I'm affected by the life I share my life with during shooting. It's always a very strange and special period for me.
I'm able to tell when I'm in a bad place or super-sad and move on. When you're stuck somewhere, you need to change something to shift the energy.
Filmmaking is not about gender. You cannot ask a president in a festival like Cannes to have, like, five movies directed by women and five by men.
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.
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.
'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.
When you don't have time, especially for a director, you cannot do exactly what you want to do. You have to cut your dream to fit in the movie you're doing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.
I love to work this way - I love the time of preparation. If you feed yourself with all the information and you get to understand who the character is then you can really be her.
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.
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.
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.
Michael Fassbender is just a creative force: he finds authenticity in singularity with what he brings, and it's always authentic. He doesn't try to be creative and different for the sake of it.
Usually when I work, I'm totally dedicated to the role, and when I leave the set, I bring some of my character home with me, but I can't bring anyone home with me now because my son would freak out.
It's a paradox to be an actress, living in the city, taking planes all the time, trying to find the right balance in this life, which is not so eco-friendly, and still try to respect the environment.
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.
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.