Lea Seydoux Quotes & Sayings

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. — Lea Seydoux

In America, you don't have to be weak, you have to be strong. — Lea Seydoux

I love it when people have pleasure working and when there is respect. That's what I love. — Lea Seydoux

I was putting forward too much of myself when I was singing. — Lea Seydoux

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. — Lea Seydoux

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. — Lea Seydoux

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. — Lea Seydoux

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. — Lea Seydoux

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. — Lea Seydoux

Culture is fundamental. Literature saves you. Cinema saves you. — Lea Seydoux

But my favorite part in my body are my dark circles. They define me. They reveal my melancholy. — Lea Seydoux

I'm not as beautiful as a model. — Lea Seydoux

Even in between takes, you emerge yourself. So you don't have a life for six months. — Lea Seydoux

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. — Lea Seydoux