Latest Marion Cotillard Quotes from Interviews

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• You cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness.

  Marion Cotillard

  Madness, Good Things, Deals

  "Marion Cotillard, Queen of Scotland". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 4, 2015.

• For me, what Macbeth is about is people who cannot face their fears and pain and instead of facing them and going beyond, they just run away and they try to cover this with power and violence, but it doesn't work.

  Marion Cotillard

  Running, Pain, People

  "Marion Cotillard, Queen of Scotland". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 4, 2015.

• 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 strange and special period for me.

  Marion Cotillard

  Special, Actors, Shooting

  "Marion Cotillard, Queen of Scotland". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 4, 2015.

• I couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.

  Marion Cotillard

  Country, Different, Language

  Interview with John Cameron Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 20, 2014.

• I'm not a real musician. 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. I want to be able to be in a group and take my guitar and play with them, without someone showing me, "Okay, you're going to do this and that," because music has always been a big part of my life.

  Marion Cotillard

  Real, Guitar, Play

  Interview with John Cameron Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 20, 2014.

• I started to write songs. And I started to like what I was writing. I think it's a new way for me to express things that are closer to myself than when I play a role, because, of course, it's really not me. I'm finding a new way. I don't know what it's going to be. But I know that I will need to give it to people one day.

  Marion Cotillard

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with John Cameron Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 20, 2014.

• We lost this animal instinct that we used to have. We use a very low percentage of our instinct.

  Marion Cotillard

  Animal, Use, Instinct

  Interview with John Cameron Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 20, 2014.

• Sometimes you don't need to explain how you care and love someone so much, but I really love him as a person and as a director. I wanted to be perfect for Michael Mann. I wanted to give the best of my best of my best. I don't know if I did, but I was touched by him. He's totally inspirational.

  Marion Cotillard

  Giving, Perfect, And Love

  "Public Enemies - Marion Cotillard interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• I'm always 100% committed to a character, a story and a director, and with Michael Mann it was 1,000%. I don't know how to explain this.

  Marion Cotillard

  Character, Directors, Stories

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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.

  Marion Cotillard

  Character, Preparation, Information

  "Public Enemies - Marion Cotillard interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• 'Particularly' is particularly difficult because the 'L' and the 'R' are totally different, like totally different letters. I would spend hours in front of the mirror with my dialect coach to observe my tongue. You don't think, when you speak, about all the things that happen in your jaw and your mouth, how everything reacts, so you have to watch all those things and realise we have a totally different use of our tongue and jaws.

  Marion Cotillard

  Thinking, Mirrors, Dialect Coach

  "Public Enemies - Marion Cotillard interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• The first thing, the main thing, about how I work is I need to understand the character.

  Marion Cotillard

  Character, Needs, Firsts

  "Public Enemies - Marion Cotillard interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• I'm a great fan of Michael Mann and when he asked to see me I couldn't believe it. I was very happy. I met him and I read this beautiful script. I didn't know anything about Dillinger. I fell in love with the movie and Michael Mann.

  Marion Cotillard

  Beautiful, Believe, Fans

  "Public Enemies - Marion Cotillard interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• But it's very technical and you really have to work and work and work to crack it. It's about using your whole face, jaw and tongue in a totally different way. It was very interesting - I love the English language, which made it easier.

  Marion Cotillard

  Interesting, Different, Cracks

  "Public Enemies - Marion Cotillard interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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

  Marion Cotillard

  Thinking, Actors, Good Actors

  "Marion Cotillard Interview PUBLIC ENEMIES". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. July 2, 2009.

• I've always known actors because my parents are actors on stage and so I lived in a very creative environment when I was a kid. All my life.

  Marion Cotillard

  Kids, Creative, Parent

  "Marion Cotillard Interview PUBLIC ENEMIES". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. July 2, 2009.

• 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.

  Marion Cotillard

  Thinking, Want, Too Much

  "Marion Cotillard Interview PUBLIC ENEMIES". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. July 2, 2009.

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

  Marion Cotillard

  Past, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

• Usually when I start to work and to prepare the movie, some inspirations, different kind of human beings, it can be someone I know, someone I don't, a girl, a boy. So usually when I start, quite right away, some inspirations come.

  Marion Cotillard

  Girl, Inspiration, Boys

  "INCEPTION Press Conference Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Ken Watanabe, Christopher Nolan, Hans Zimmer and Emma Thomas". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. July 12, 2010.