Vincent Cassel

You can't escape from what you are.

— Vincent Cassel

I really enjoy being an actor!

— Vincent Cassel

There's only so much you can control in life.

— Vincent Cassel

I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

— Vincent Cassel

I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.

— Vincent Cassel

I love Cartier. They are the classic French jeweller.

— Vincent Cassel

I'm a little angry in life.

— Vincent Cassel

The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.

— Vincent Cassel

I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.

— Vincent Cassel

My father danced a lot. He was called 'the French Fred Astaire.'

— Vincent Cassel

When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.

— Vincent Cassel

In Italy, it is difficult to see a film in the original language because the voice actors here are a mafia.

— Vincent Cassel

I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.

— Vincent Cassel

Good guys need to be a little dirty otherwise they're just boring.

— Vincent Cassel

I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.

— Vincent Cassel

I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys.

— Vincent Cassel

I have a huge relationship with Brazil; it's almost a love affair, I would say. And to me, to introduce that specific…

— Vincent Cassel

I didn't have many girlfriends in my youth. I was an active young man, jumping from one girl to the next, but…

— Vincent Cassel

From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house...…

— Vincent Cassel

There is this idea that it's very different from the French point of view to work in America blah, blah, blah. But…

— Vincent Cassel

I love French style from the Thirties and Forties. French movie stars like Jean Gabin and Yves Montand had so much natural,…

— Vincent Cassel

I'm an actor, that's what I do every day. Dressing up is part of my job. But whatever you wear you should…

— Vincent Cassel

I feel like the so-called bad guys are never totally bad. I guess it's the closest thing I can do to reality:…

— Vincent Cassel

I have a tendency to think that that stereotype of American movies and Hollywood movies doesn't exist. Of course you have the…

— Vincent Cassel

I have a physical background. It's not like I'm a kung fu master, but my real training was dance school, and through…

— Vincent Cassel

The minute your parents die, you stop fighting them. I realized the more I changed my face for films, the more I…

— Vincent Cassel

I think people have a misinterpretation of Method acting, because Method acting is a wonderful thing. The thing is, if you take…

— Vincent Cassel

The few times in my life where I had four or five movies in a row, it was a nightmare. I felt…

— Vincent Cassel

Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn't really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists,…

— Vincent Cassel

I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if…

— Vincent Cassel

'Brotherhood of the Wolf' is a very important movie because it represents something new. The director Christophe Gans came up with the…

— Vincent Cassel

Yes. The way people behave, the paradoxes, the contradictions. All these things we have to live with and still pretend that everything…

— Vincent Cassel

Steven Soderbergh really likes Irréversible, that's about all I can tell you. About the making, well, it was a very particular situation,…

— Vincent Cassel

You usually never know what you're going to do when you're making a movie.

— Vincent Cassel

As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.

— Vincent Cassel

To work with somebody you love makes filming faster, more fun.

— Vincent Cassel

My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.

— Vincent Cassel

Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.

— Vincent Cassel

I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.

— Vincent Cassel

I think I'm actually more vulnerable than people imagine.

— Vincent Cassel