Lea Seydoux
I don't like modernity. I don't have television or the Internet at home. The Internet scares me. I can't drive a car.Collection: Car
Actually, I started to become an actress because I met someone who was just a friend and I found his life wonderful, I thought, Oh my god, you can travel, you're free, you can do what you want, you're the boss. And then I met an actor and I was in love with him.Collection: Travel
I like a man who can respect a woman. When he's real attentive, I think that is very manly. To respect a woman is divine.Collection: Respect
Male directors always project their own desire of women - how they want a woman to dress, to do her hair. With a woman director, it's more a projection of herself.
Whether you're in a blockbuster or an art film, you have to be able to adapt.
In America, they are very respectful of your work. People are not judgmental. They like difference - to be different is a force. In France, you have to be like the girl next door.
For me, cinema's like a language - everyone has their own form of it.
It's true that French are not very sophisticated in the sense that they don't dress up for dinners. They are not like Americans, where they are always perfect - the girls are not very sporty; they don't take care of themselves as much as Americans, who always have very white teeth and are so fit.
I think that I'm shy and I judge myself. But at the same time, I also have big contradictions. I can be sometimes sure of myself as well. I'm not always fragile and vulnerable. I can feel tough and strong.
I was putting forward too much of myself when I was singing.
Music was my first love, but it was difficult for me. It's something that I really love, but I didn't feel that I was so good at it. I can sing well, but I'm not a great singer. When I sing, I don't feel I'm expressing all the emotions.
I'm not as beautiful as a model.
Even in between takes, you emerge yourself. So you don't have a life for six months.
In America it's good to show people you are fine, you're healthy, you're sporty, you're happy to do things, to live. And in France it's more like you don't have to show you have success.
In America, you don't have to be weak, you have to be strong.
If I do too many takes, I'm too self-conscious. I think I'm better in first scenes.
When a director you admire says that he wants to work with you, it's always a compliment, very good for your ego.
I don't have any preconceived ideas of myself. I just take things as they come.
My proudest moment is when I'm part of a good film, when people are touched by it.
I'm not reading reviews and critics. I don't care. I guess I'm still a little on my own planet.
As an actor, it's up to you to show that you can do something else. For me, the interesting actors don't always go where you expect to find them.
There are no nail salons in Paris - it is very expensive to do a manicure. I sometimes get one done.
I would love to take more risks - have pink hair - but it doesn't look right on me.
I don't really wear makeup every day. I feel like being an actress - we wear a lot of makeup - but when I am not working, I need to let my face breathe and be very comfortable.
It's a misogynistic world. It's because of what we ask of actresses. We ask them to be sensitive, fragile, desirable. And men? We ask them to be strong and virile.
This is why I became an actress. So that people will take care of me. To be an actress is a refuge. You are taken everywhere, stay in wonderful hotels, everyone looks after you.
I see that people now recognize me in the street. But it doesn't change me in the depth of my being.
I've always felt that Americans are very in the moment. There's not so much melancholia and mystery as there is in France. Everything must be understood. Everything must be analyzed.
I love being in the States because there's an emphasis on work. People are enthusiastic. They put heart into things.
I found it hard to express myself in the world. I was very shy. I'm still very shy. But also, when I was a child, I could get very... I had this violence... I still get angry. But I don't break things; I'm not hysterical.
I find it hard to be joyful on screen because I'm so tense.
I love challenge. I love to be afraid before a film, before acting. I think always I want to experience fear. I've become addicted to this feeling.
I see society as something dangerous, and you have to save yourself from the rules. I think acting is the way I save myself.
I like to learn things from other cultures. I'm curious. It's exciting to be in an unknown world, in a way.
Culture is fundamental. Literature saves you. Cinema saves you.Collection: Culture
But my favorite part in my body are my dark circles. They define me. They reveal my melancholy.Collection: Dark
I am about life. I surround myself with beautiful things. I work hard to have a better life. This job helps me achieve that through the people I meet. I'm lucky - not to have been a cover girl - but to have been able to meet all these people, to live these adventures and travel so comfortably. But despite that, it's still difficult. Nothing comes easily. Everything I've earned is down to me, and no one else.Collection: Beautiful
I don't like comfort zones. Having never had any drama training, I don't really have a technique, so I'm continually learning new things. I like being frightened, and always having to start from scratch.Collection: Drama
I love it when people have pleasure working and when there is respect. That's what I love.Collection: People
I think that nudity is beautiful. Sometimes it can be awful, but when it's beautiful? Cinema is the art about reality; it's art from reality. In French we say l'art de la realite. You show reality, so you have to show bodies.Collection: Beautiful
I don't pay much attention to magazine covers. One day, there'll be slack times in my career. It's unavoidable, because success is temporary. Which is why you have to stay focused on this very taxing job.Collection: Jobs
The character is important, of course, but I like when there's intelligence in a movie. I like when it's, how do you say, sensible. So for me a film is very subjective, and it's a point of view. I like to be brought into a world of a director.Collection: Character
Making movies in France is different, but it's still acting, you know. You still have doubts and you're scared, always, but I really love doing films in America, because I love to speak English. But I think there's something very entertaining about American films. But I also like the intimacy of French films.Collection: Thinking
I went to Berlin for a year and a half, and that's where I learned about culture and art and everything. Before that, I lived in total absence of culture. I come from a house where there was nothing like reading or art.Collection: Art
When I first met Adèle I was like, ‘Wow, this girl has a strong character!’ She has something very free about her. I’m not used to it. Some actresses are too self-aware, they strike a pose. Adèle is a force of nature.Collection: Girl