Quotes By Marion Cotillard

An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.

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 don't have a goal.

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

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

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.

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

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

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'm not a liar.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.