Quotes By Marion Cotillard

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.

It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else.

I've always had a repulsion going in a place where animals are in captivity.

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.

My parents definitely sparked something in me. I'm sure of it. I saw how happy and fulfilled they were, and I knew I wanted the same job.

I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.

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.

I was shy. I was more than shy.

If you search and search and stop searching, then ultimately you'll find what you need. It is the experience of living.

I think we're lied to about a number of things.

I never thought that I would have to play an Indian, well half French, but an Indian woman in my life.

I'm not a liar.

I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.

As an actress I just want to tell beautiful stories.

I think the Earth and everything around it is connected - the sky and the planets and the stars and everything else we see as a mystery.

Respect the place you live, be aware of the impact that you have on things.

You don't really see yourself doing things, of course, but you feel.

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.