Marion Cotillard

I have busy nights.

— Marion Cotillard

I don't have a goal.

— Marion Cotillard

You can't work all your life.

— Marion Cotillard

I'm not a liar.

— Marion Cotillard

I was shy. I was more than shy.

— Marion Cotillard

I need to be on the same page as the director.

— Marion Cotillard

I don't want to change the world; I want to evolve myself.

— Marion Cotillard

I don't live with my role, I'm a really normal person.

— Marion Cotillard

I think we’re lied to about a number of things,

— Marion Cotillard

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

— Marion Cotillard

I don't know if I will be acting all my life, honestly.

— Marion Cotillard

What I do is doing movies and sharing movies.

— Marion Cotillard

I was a big fan of Greta Garbo and that era of movies, so I dreamt watching those movies.

— Marion Cotillard

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

— Marion Cotillard

You have to find the place where you abandon everything of yourself. Then you can let something else happen.

— Marion Cotillard

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

— Marion Cotillard

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

— Marion Cotillard

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

— Marion Cotillard

I think that you always learn something from working with good actors.

— Marion Cotillard

You don't really see yourself doing things, of course, but you feel.

— Marion Cotillard

I was very surprised that they would ask a foreign actress to be Lady Macbeth, but I felt it was an opportunity…

— Marion Cotillard

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

— Marion Cotillard

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…

— Marion Cotillard

My parents definitely sparked something in me. I'm sure of it. I saw how happy and fulfilled they were, and I knew…

— Marion Cotillard

I've always known actors because my parents are actors on stage and so I lived in a very creative environment when I…

— Marion Cotillard

I'm so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldn't have dared to think I…

— Marion Cotillard

When a script moves me, I find that I immediately understand a character. Of course not completely, but I do understand.

— Marion Cotillard

But it's very technical and you really have to work and work and work to crack it. It's about using your whole…

— Marion Cotillard

I remember when I was a little girl at her house in Brittany. When she cooked, she wouldnt waste anything. And my…

— Marion Cotillard

My apartment in Switzerland was too big for me. I needed far less living space than I had. I was constantly preoccupied…

— Marion Cotillard

I'll never approach a part in the same way again. Piaf taught me so much. In terms of my work, I think…

— Marion Cotillard

I always want to abandon myself to my characters, and I never knew if I was actually abandoning myself to Lady Macbeth.…

— Marion Cotillard

If I just wear something because I feel like myself and I'm comfortable, that's okay - and that goes even for more…

— Marion Cotillard

You don't sleep anymore, but at the same time, you have this strength that comes from this life that has just arrived.…

— Marion Cotillard

Going to a museum. I love it. I think the last exhibit I saw was two years ago, here, in Santa Monica.…

— Marion Cotillard

Im so happy about because last year I was away from home all the time. I loved being on the road and…

— Marion Cotillard

As an actress I just want to tell beautiful stories

— Marion Cotillard

An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.

— Marion Cotillard

The biggest challenge to me is always technique.

— Marion Cotillard

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

— Marion Cotillard