Marion Cotillard Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.
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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.
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I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.
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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.
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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.
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When I was little, there were so many people in my house. Everyone was enjoying themselves, rehearsing, having fun. It was like a playground.
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If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story.
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I think we're lied to about a number of things.
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I'm not a real musician. 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 want to be able to be in a group and take my guitar and play with them, without someone showing me, "Okay, you're going to do this and that," because music has always been a big part of my life.
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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.
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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.
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Sometimes you don't need to explain how you care and love someone so much, but I really love him as a person and as a director. I wanted to be perfect for Michael Mann. I wanted to give the best of my best of my best. I don't know if I did, but I was touched by him. He's totally inspirational.
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We lost this animal instinct that we used to have. We use a very low percentage of our instinct.
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I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.
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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.
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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.
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I think that you always learn something from working with good actors.
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What I like in this job is you can travel to many places, many imaginations.
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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.
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For me, what Macbeth is about is people who cannot face their fears and pain and instead of facing them and going beyond, they just run away and they try to cover this with power and violence, but it doesn't work.
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I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.
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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.
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I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13.
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I didn't like anything about myself - my looks, my personality. I was very, very angry.
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I don't think that I'm that sophisticated. Maybe I'm not aware of it, I don't know.
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But it's very technical and you really have to work and work and work to crack it. It's about using your whole face, jaw and tongue in a totally different way. It was very interesting - I love the English language, which made it easier.
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