Marion Cotillard Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Every Story is different, Every Movie is different, Every Director is different.

As an actress I just want to tell beautiful stories

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

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

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.

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

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

Im so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldnt have dared to think I would work with one day.

I don't stick to special techniques, conscious techniques.

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.

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

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.

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

An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.

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