Quotes from Marion Cotillard

I never look at any pictures of myself on the red carpet. I can't do that.

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.

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 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.

I couldn't identify with anyone. At school, I was considered very strange. I didn't understand the relationships between people.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 was shy. I was more than shy.

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.

I don't really pay attention to which accent I have. I'm in a singular box as an actress.

I've worked with people who wanted to be creative every day: it was like a goal to arrive with something very special. Sometimes it's just disturbing, because special is good when it's needed. But when it's not needed, it's confusing, and you go away from the authenticity by a strong desire to be unique and singular.

Michael Fassbender is just a creative force: he finds authenticity in singularity with what he brings, and it's always authentic. He doesn't try to be creative and different for the sake of it.

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.

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

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

When people dont know exactly what depression is, they can be judgmental.

When I was a kid, my dream was to be an actress and to be able to jump from one world to another, to disappear into roles, that people wouldn't recognize me from one movie to another. So I feel very lucky that I have the opportunity to live that dream.

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.

When you don't have time, especially for a director, you cannot do exactly what you want to do. You have to cut your dream to fit in the movie you're doing.