Charlotte Gainsbourg
Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.
Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.
The more sincere I could be, the better it would be for the film.
I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.
When you love someone, you don't want them to suffer at all.
At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.
Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that.
I couldn't do anything else, I enjoy it so much. But I find it tough.
I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.
I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time.
I hope I'll consider my next part, having learnt from this one.
I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.
I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play.
I used to hate being recognised.
I was putting all those pressures on myself.
I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.
I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again.
I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest.
In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.
It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt inside.
It's nice that we have all these different films.
The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.
The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.
The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.
There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that.
Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.
You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.
You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?
I hope one day I will be able to be completely myself. Maybe I'll be wilder.Collection: One Day
There's always this thing of wanting to be elsewhere.Collection: Elsewhere
I like to play roles different from myself so I can hide behind them.Collection: Play
When you fight against your own weaknesses, there's something embarrassing about it.Collection: Fighting
I love being a beginner. It can be a terrible feeling because you're ashamed of everything you do, but it's so exciting at the same time.Collection: Love Is
The problem with me in doing things simply is that I feel I'm not enough. It's all very embarrassing.Collection: Problem
I came to understand that people come and see you because they like you. They don't come to throw things at you.Collection: People
Style for me is a casual way of putting something on. It's not thought out but needs to suit your way of life. Now I like wearing the same sweater over and over again, then taking it off when it's smelly.Collection: Sweaters
I wish I could just accept that I'm not that good and not be shy about the fact that I'm not that professional.Collection: Wish
I was really nervous about people booing, because my mother had gone for a film 20 years earlier and had a terrible time with people booing, whistling, so I knew that in Cannes people can get aggressive.Collection: Mother
Maybe, in the back of my head, I'm thinking I have to do as much as I can. It'll stop.Collection: Thinking
I don't feel that I've accomplished anything. I feel that it'll be better when I won't care as much, but it's so difficult to let go and accept all the wrong notes.Collection: Letting Go
I'd love to be able to write again, but I'm so repetitive. And it was all about fear. Never positive. Just indulgent about my sadness.Collection: Writing
You don't accept your weaknesses the same way that you love the weaknesses of another artist, because when they make mistakes they don't look like weaknesses.Collection: Mistake
I think I developed a very closed personality. I didn't really have friends. I changed schools every year.Collection: School
Each time I changed, it was as if, on purpose, I didn’t want anyone to know too much about me, which of course now I regret, because I closed myself to everything. But it was my way of dealing with things.Collection: Regret
I don't feel I have to share everything.Collection: Share
I don't have a career plan. I've never done that. Things happen accidentally and I've been lucky.Collection: Careers
It was very liberating to be able to sing in English. It had a different resonance, different images. It was like being a stranger in a foreign land, which was helpful.Collection: Land
I can't do things by myself. I need a motivation, and the motivation is always the director's. I find my freedom inside other people's barriers. It's easier for me to find myself inside someone else's tracks.Collection: Motivation
I think, being an actress, you know that you're getting old. I'm 44. I mean, an agent said when I turned 40, "It won't get better."Collection: Mean
I don't want to feel that I'm a singer or an actress - being able to say that those are just experiences is what I enjoy.Collection: Want