Marion Cotillard
I don't really pay attention to which accent I have. I'm in a singular box as an actress.
You fall in love with someone, you don't know this person yet, and you get to know this person. That's what happens when I fall in love with a character, and I want to be this person.
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.
I never dreamt to be a princess in my life; I really dreamt to be an actress, but I dreamt of princesses on screen.
I was a big fan of Greta Garbo and that era of movies, so I dreamt watching those movies.
The biggest challenge to me is always technique.
When you are on set, you are not your best judge because it is hard to step back when you are into the character.
I think that when you don't see the boundaries, you cross them without even knowing they exist in the first place.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Ideas
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.Collection: Teenager
You cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness.Collection: Madness
That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.Collection: Paris
You have to invest if you want to restore balance to the world.Collection: Balance
We lost this animal instinct that we used to have. We use a very low percentage of our instinct.Collection: Animal
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Character
I think that you always learn something from working with good actors.Collection: Thinking
I'm a great fan of Michael Mann and when he asked to see me I couldn't believe it. I was very happy. I met him and I read this beautiful script. I didn't know anything about Dillinger. I fell in love with the movie and Michael Mann.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Kids
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.Collection: Fun
As an actress I just want to tell beautiful storiesCollection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Girl
The first thing, the main thing, about how I work is I need to understand the character.Collection: Character
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.Collection: Giving
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.Collection: Character
I started to write songs. And I started to like what I was writing. I think it's a new way for me to express things that are closer to myself than when I play a role, because, of course, it's really not me. I'm finding a new way. I don't know what it's going to be. But I know that I will need to give it to people one day.Collection: Song
'Particularly' is particularly difficult because the 'L' and the 'R' are totally different, like totally different letters. I would spend hours in front of the mirror with my dialect coach to observe my tongue. You don't think, when you speak, about all the things that happen in your jaw and your mouth, how everything reacts, so you have to watch all those things and realise we have a totally different use of our tongue and jaws.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Opportunity
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.Collection: Interesting
I think what we've experienced in the past is that people do like to be challenged.Collection: Past
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.Collection: Character
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...Collection: Stories
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.Collection: Stories
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.Collection: Fun