Quotes By Marion Cotillard

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.

I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13.

I was born in Paris and raised in the suburbs and then lived in the countryside.

I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.

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.

Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered.

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.

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 have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.

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 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 don't live with my role, I'm a really normal person.

You have to find the place where you abandon everything of yourself. Then you can let something else happen.

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.

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.

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.

I don't think that I'm that sophisticated. Maybe I'm not aware of it, I don't know.

What I like in this job is you can travel to many places, many imaginations.

I didn't like anything about myself - my looks, my personality. I was very, very angry.

When you are abandoned by two parents as a baby - wow, that is something to live with.

I have busy nights.

If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story.

Every story is different, every movie is different, every director is different.

I'm not the kind of person who can do a lot of things at the same time.

My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.

An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.

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 don't have a goal.

When a script moves me, I find that I immediately understand a character. Of course not completely, but I do understand.

I don't stick to special techniques, conscious techniques.