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French-American actress and singer, Birth: 30-9-1975 Marion Cotillard Quotes
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I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.
Marion Cotillard

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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.
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I think that when you don't see the boundaries, you cross them without even knowing they exist in the first place.
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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.
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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.
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You cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness.
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I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.
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Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered.
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I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.
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If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else.
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That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.
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You have to invest if you want to restore balance to the world.
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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.
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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.
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Respect the place you live, be aware of the impact that you have on things.
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I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What I like in this job is you can travel to many places, many imaginations.
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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.
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I was born in Paris and raised in the suburbs and then lived in the countryside.
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Every Story is different, Every Movie is different, Every Director is different.
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I'm not a method actor, but I'm affected by the life I share my life with during shooting. It's always a very strange and special period for me.
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I think what we've experienced in the past is that people do like to be challenged.
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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.
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The first thing, the main thing, about how I work is I need to understand the character.
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I don't stick to special techniques, conscious techniques.
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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.
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I didn't like anything about myself - my looks, my personality. I was very, very angry.
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When you are abandoned by two parents as a baby - wow, that is something to live with.
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When I was little, there were so many people in my house. Everyone was enjoying themselves, rehearsing, having fun. It was like a playground.
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I never thought that I would have to play an Indian, well half French, but an Indian woman in my life.
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I think that you always learn something from working with good actors.
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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.
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I don't live with my role, I'm a really normal person.
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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.
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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.
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An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.
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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.
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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.
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As an actress I just want to tell beautiful stories
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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.
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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.
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I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13.
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I think we're lied to about a number of things.
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