Quotes from Audrey Tautou

I can be maternal with my friends.

I have several plan Bs: I want to become a sailor; I like to draw; I would love to learn many things, but I don't have time.

I started off in this dreadful, vulgar film called 'The Libertine.' I was just learning. I needed the money.

I think for everybody celebrity, fame, is a dream. People see it as a blessing.

In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.

To have a personal life is the minimum freedom you have to give to a human being.

Because I don't do five films a year, people maybe think that acting is not essential to my life. But if I worked any more than I do, I'd have no personal life.

I like when an image could be just one of several others which would create a story. That you can imagine who are those people or what would happen before, what's going to be next; I like when there's a past and a future that we can imagine when we see photos.

I am always surprised to be chosen by a director for a role because I never understand why they like me.

I'm not sure that it's easy to find very interesting female characters in Hollywood movies.

I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.

Art - be it painting, sculpture, music - they are all creations, they are creative acts. I consider a film, with everything that is involved in it, an art.

I think if I was less exigent with myself, maybe I would be more productive, because I would put less pressure on my shoulders.

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.

I've never sent a Tweet. I think I have an account but I don't know who runs it. I've never done one in my life.

Even if I have only ten more years in front of me, it's such an intensive life. I have the feeling that I have already lived three lives in three years.

I don't want to live in Los Angeles. The city depresses me! It is too flat. There are too many cars.

I feel very French and I need my life here; I need all my friends and family.

I don't want to think my life as a career.

It's difficult to feel that people are looking at you in the street. I don't like the fuss.

I keep my wishes and dreams secret, like a child.

I've never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I've never had a desire to work there.

I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries.