Marion Cotillard

“I always want to abandon myself to my characters, and I never knew if I was actually abandoning myself to Lady Macbeth. I was scared to enter the darkness. Almost every day, I would go back...”

“The first time I saw 'Macbeth' was not the entire play. It was at acting school, and this student was working on Lady Macbeth's soliloquy. I felt something very special, and I knew then that...”

“You can't work all your life.”

“I never analyzed whether I had a style or whether I didn't. I wouldn't be able to describe my style or even tell if I have one or not.”

“Campaigning and acting aren't compatible. That's why Audrey Hepburn gave up acting. That's why Angelina Jolie will give up. I'm not ready to stop yet.”

“Filmmaking is not about gender. You cannot ask a president in a festival like Cannes to have, like, five movies directed by women and five by men.”

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

“I was never really interested in fashion before I started to work with Dior. I didn't see fashion as an art form.”

“There are so many actresses that I love. I think Jennifer Lawrence is a prodigy. I think Elle Fanning is absolutely amazing.”

“My first kiss was in the geography room, where you put all the maps. I actually don't know how to say it in English.”

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

“I was very surprised that they would ask a foreign actress to be Lady Macbeth, but I felt it was an opportunity that I couldn't miss. Having the opportunity to play Shakespeare in English -...”

“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.”

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

“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 never dreamt to be a princess in my life; I really dreamt to be an actress, but I dreamt of princesses on screen.”

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

“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 env...”

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

“It was right after I did Piaf, 'La Vie en Rose'. I started to take singing lessons and finding where I could go.”