Charlotte Gainsbourg Quotes - Page 2

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• The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Character, Situation, Havens

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't feel I have to share everything.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Share, Feels

  "I have a very easy life". Interview with Phil Daoust, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2002.

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• I don't have a career plan. I've never done that. Things happen accidentally and I've been lucky.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Careers, Lucky, Done

  "The Dreamer: Charlotte Gainsbourg". Interview with Danger Mouse, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• It was very liberating to be able to sing in English. It had a different resonance, different images. It was like being a stranger in a foreign land, which was helpful.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Land, Different, Able

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

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• I can't do things by myself. I need a motivation, and the motivation is always the director's. I find my freedom inside other people's barriers. It's easier for me to find myself inside someone else's tracks.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Motivation, Track, Barriers

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I think, being an actress, you know that you're getting old. I'm 44. I mean, an agent said when I turned 40, "It won't get better."

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Mean, Thinking, Get Better

  "The Dreamer: Charlotte Gainsbourg". Interview with Danger Mouse, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• I don't want to feel that I'm a singer or an actress - being able to say that those are just experiences is what I enjoy.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Want, Singers, Able

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

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• I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Long, Vision, Faces

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It rarely happens that I get to work again with the same director. I had such a wonderful time on Antichrist with Lars von Trier, that I was going to do whatever he proposed me to do. When he sent me the script of Christmas, I just loved it. I think I love anything he writes.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Writing, Thinking, Wonderful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think it's a legend that Lars von Trier is such a tough person to work with. I really didn't experience any of that. Of course, he's difficult in the sense that what he asks for is difficult. For my part in Antichrist, I suffered a bit. But it was the part - it wasn't him. He wasn't cruel. On the contrary, he was very kind. You know what you're up for when you read the pitch.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Thinking, Tough, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was very well paid for my age, and I could make choices, decide not to do a film for six months and wait until I'd get the right thing. Which made me quite a coward.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Choices, Waiting, Age

  "The Dreamer: Charlotte Gainsbourg". Interview with Danger Mouse, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• Even moving around onstage seemed very artificial. But at the same time you have to make that effort in order to get back to who you are and even accept not moving, if that's who you are.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Moving, Order, Effort

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

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• I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Film, Found, Conversation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Judgement, Directors, Needs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Stupid, Watches, Television

  "I have a very easy life" by Phil Daoust, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2002.

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• I felt that people would criticize everything. I was so scared about playing Paris. I was very much aware that the greatest concerts my father and mother had done were there. I was sure people would be very tough.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Mother, Father, Paris

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

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• I didn't want to change my personality onstage, but I still had to build some kind of ego to be able to go up there. If not, there's no point.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Personality, Ego, Want

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

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• I was very attached to my family when my father died. I was 19. I was about to go live with my father right when he died, so it was very intense.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Father, Intense, My Family

  "The Dreamer: Charlotte Gainsbourg". Interview with Danger Mouse, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• My father loved me and he wanted to work with me and he didn't care what people would say.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Father, People, Care

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

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• Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Letting Go, Thinking, Ridiculous

  "Beauty and style secrets from our favourite French icons". www.stylist.co.uk.

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• I thought people wouldn't take me seriously if too much acting was involved in the singing. But now I love the idea of mixing everything together.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Ideas, People, Singing

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

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• I used to hate being recognised.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Hate, Used

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Before I started touring, I worked with someone to help me, even physically, because I was so shy. And you can't be shy going onstage. So I had to push myself in a direction that wasn't myself.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Shy, Helping, Help Me

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

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• The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Daughter, Mother, Father

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's nice that we have all these different films.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Nice, Different, Film

  "Coupling On Camera and Off; Yvan Attal and Charlotte Gainsbourg Talk About “My Wife Is an". Interview with Guy V. Cimbalo, www.indiewire.com. July 16, 2002.

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