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Marion Cotillard

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“Thank you, life. Thank you, love. And it is true, there is some angels in this city.”
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Recorded in: Marion Cotillard winning Best Actress | 80th Oscars (2008)
“I was fascinated by this world of telling stories, of having a different day every day. And my parents were – still are – passionate people, and to be raised with passionate people who open the door of your imagination and your creativity, I think it’s why I am an actress now.”
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“Daniel Day-Lewis gave me one advice. Take care of my life. Don’t work too much. He’s right. And that’s why you have to come back to your life, because it is in your life where you can find the desire to tell someone a story, and if you don’t live your life then you are not interesting any more, because what will you tell? If I’m always in different stories which are not mine I’ll be lost and I’ll be poor. Poor of my own life. And I don’t want that.”
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“Someone who will try to make me angry or create a situation that is not related to my character in order to put me in the state of the character. It’s 100 percent counter productive. Either I will get mad and I won’t be good or – and most of the time this is what happens – I will laugh. I cannot take it seriously.”
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“I don’t know if we have many lives or if I will be reincarnated into a next life, but I really do think that when you die, it doesn’t stop.”
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Recorded in: Kidman, Nicole (15 July 2010). "Marion Cotillard". Interview Magazine.
“Talking about myself to someone I don’t know, and knowing that most of the time they will interpret in a bad way what I’m saying, has turned me into a wild beast when it comes to press. I’ve noticed that it’s creating something kind of out of focus about myself.”
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Recorded in: Mitchell, John Cameron (20 February 2014). "Marion Cotillard". Interview Magazine.
“For a long time, my roles took over and prevented me from living life to the full, especially as I rarely chose lighthearted stories. This was particularly true for :La Vie en Rose and Macbeth. There are two kinds of actresses: those who burn themselves out, and those who manage to put the character aside and come home in the evening. Today, I’m halfway there. Since becoming a mother, I have put boundaries to protect my children.”
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“Learning to love yourself is a way to live better with others. If we want the world to be better, we must start by looking at ourselves with love.”
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“I've never believed in the so-called method, that is, in the idea of identifying with the character to the point of living in his skin even off the set. But this time, for the first time in my career, I decided that to play Alice, outside of filming, I would never speak to my partner, Melvil Poupaud. He was disappointed at first, but then after the film I tried to explain to him that I had to find a foothold to hate him with all my might.”
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Recorded in: On working in Brother and Sister (2022),
“It's hard to shake off these harmful thoughts, but I too eventually realized they lead nowhere. It's a lifelong journey to stop judging yourself, to stop comparing yourself. I used to hate myself, and I also chose this profession to seek a little love and confidence in the eyes of others. It took me time to understand that fulfillment begins with self-esteem.”
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“And it's sometimes confusing. I haven't always recognized myself in the way people perceived me. I wish I hadn't been affected by it, but that's not the case. And in France, when you're successful, especially outside your country, there's a curious effect, as if the public and the press were thinking, "It's 'too much' for one person.”
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“With time, a little perspective, and a strong support network, one begins to accept one's journey as it is, with its beautiful moments and its more difficult phases. It's also a way to learn about oneself, about one's capacity for resilience.”
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“I was driven by my desire to plunge into the unknown, to experiment with artists who have a very strong point of view. I also like commercial or more "classic" cinema, but I need otherness.”
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“I dream of it, but we're rarely offered female duos or trios. I regret this, because while I love actors, I've always been fascinated by actresses. I was so happy to work with Noémie Merlant in Bertrand Mandico's Roma Elastica.”
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“To the point of inflaming passions, regardless of whether the feedback is positive or negative… Without this festival, some filmmakers would not have had the same careers. It is an unparalleled platform and springboard, even for artists who are silenced in their own countries.”
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“The climb up the stairs terrifies me. It's such an energetic vortex that I find it very difficult to relax at that precise moment. I only felt lighter once, because I was surrounded by Jean Dujardin and Gilles Lellouche, who are my friends.”
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“It was for Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, but I couldn't go. No regrets: my son was born during that festival. I went the following year with Jacques Audiard's w:Rust and Bone. I recently saw a photo of myself, and you can see it on my face: I'm over the moon! At a time when I was less kind to myself, I would have said, "I'm thrilled with the birth." It's been almost fifteen years, and I've never tired of Cannes. It's a tremendous joy to be going again soon with films by Guillaume (Canet, editor's note) and Bertrand Mandico.”
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“I was doing movies and I was not happy, I wanted more than what I had. I started to feel that I had some anger that it wouldn’t be fast enough, that I wouldn’t do [good roles], and I started getting jealous. It’s not very constructive for me to be jealous, so I told myself, OK, I’m going to take some time off. I don’t want to wait for the phone, I don’t want to do things just to earn money, because a passion shouldn’t be like that. Tim Burton offered me the role in Big Fish, and this was exactly what I wanted. It was not “exactly”, it was much more than I had dreamt of. And then I told myself, you wanted to leave, and here comes something so fulfilling, so maybe you should think twice! Maybe it’s actually your right place to be an actress.”
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“I’ve never gone so deeply in someone’s emotions, so it affected, but in a good way, my emotions. I went deep somewhere that it has awakened things that I had hidden because it was too hard to face. And after the movie I started to face those things I was afraid of. I had to get rid of a lot of my fears. I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that. And I fight and… there are a lot of situations where if I could have handled it at the time it would have gone, and I didn’t because I’m afraid of confrontation, I’m always afraid to express myself in the wrong way and to be misunderstood and to give something of an image of myself that I’m not. So most of the time I don’t say anything because of being fearful of being wrong. And with Piaf, suddenly I wanted to face my fear, because I know that when you face your fears it disappears for real.”
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“It was also that first thrill of acting that guided me. The visceral, almost inexplicable feeling that grabs hold of you and that you want to relive. My parents are actors, I grew up immersed in that world, and, at 11 or 12, I played an old concierge in a summer camp show. I truly believed I was that woman, and I was struck by the effect the scene had on my fellow campers. It was perhaps the first time I felt like an actress. At the same time, what does it mean to "feel like an actress"? To embrace it? To dare to say, "I belong here"? It's difficult to put into words without sounding presumptuous: we're already asking the audience to listen to us and watch us play with our emotions.”
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“I started in the 1990s, a time when actresses, especially younger ones, were often mistreated. Today, problematic behavior is finally considered unacceptable. It makes me feel so much better to think that young women won't have to go through what I went through, that they are better equipped than I was. When I started out, many people accepted the idea that a director could feel and express his desire for his actresses. It was also considered normal to meet a newcomer in a hotel room, to ask her to undress during an audition, to threaten her budding career if she refused to audition with a problematic man… It's so shameful. In fact, we were ashamed. I am extremely relieved by the new measures that have been put in place, the presence of intimacy coordinators on film sets, for example. I always request them, even when I have complete trust in the director. When I was young, I was assaulted by a partner after a kissing scene: as soon as we got back to the dressing room, he jumped on me. In the presence of an authorized third party, this kind of unacceptable behavior can be reported immediately.”
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