Marion Cotillard Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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. — 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. — Marion Cotillard

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. — Marion Cotillard

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

I don't stick to special techniques, conscious techniques. — Marion Cotillard

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. — Marion Cotillard

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. — Marion Cotillard

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

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

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. — Marion Cotillard

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

An artist is maybe not always having a normal life. — Marion Cotillard

I have busy nights. — Marion Cotillard

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. — Marion Cotillard

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. — Marion Cotillard

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

The first thing, the main thing, about how I work is I need to understand the character. — Marion Cotillard

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. — Marion Cotillard

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

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 ... — Marion Cotillard

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. — Marion Cotillard

I don't have a goal. — Marion Cotillard

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. — Marion Cotillard

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. — Marion Cotillard

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. — Marion Cotillard

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

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 him [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. — Marion Cotillard

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. — Marion Cotillard

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. — Marion Cotillard

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. — Marion Cotillard

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. — Marion Cotillard

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

I was shy. I was more than shy. — Marion Cotillard

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. — Marion Cotillard

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. — Marion Cotillard

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

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

I think that when you don't see the boundaries, you cross them without even knowing they exist in the first place. — Marion Cotillard

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. — Marion Cotillard

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

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. — Marion Cotillard

Every story is different, every movie is different, every director is different. — Marion Cotillard

I think that you always learn something from working with good actors. — Marion Cotillard

You can't work all your life. — Marion Cotillard

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

You have to invest if you want to restore balance to the world. — Marion Cotillard

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

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

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

I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory. — Marion Cotillard

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

We lost this animal instinct that we used to have. We use a very low percentage of our instinct. — Marion Cotillard

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. — Marion Cotillard

That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me. — Marion Cotillard

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. — Marion Cotillard

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

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

As an actress I just want to tell beautiful stories. — Marion Cotillard

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

I think what we've experienced in the past is that people do like to be challenged. — Marion Cotillard

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

You cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness. — Marion Cotillard

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. — Marion Cotillard

When I was little, there were so many people in my house. Everyone was enjoying themselves, rehearsing, having fun. It was like a playground. — Marion Cotillard