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Charlotte Gainsbourg

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Charlotte Gainsbourg is a renowned French actress known for her exceptional performances in the film industry. Born on July 21, 1971, she has been active in the film world since the early 1990s. Gainsbourg is celebrated for her unique acting style and profound understanding of characters. She has made a significant impact in international cinema with her performances in films such as 'Amélie' and 'Blue Is the Warmest Color'.

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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.”

Thinking Letting Go Ridiculous Being Afraid Over The Top

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.”

Looks Girl Causes Boys Cutting Hair Okay Shirts Boots Jeans Degrading International Women's Day International Women Day

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“Style for me is a casual way of putting something on. It's not thought out but needs to suit your way of life. Now I like wearing the same sweater over and over again, then taking it off when it's smelly.”

Way Needs Style Suits Casual Sweaters Smelly

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

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

Different Film Nice

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

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

Character Situation Havens

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“I like to play roles different from myself so I can hide behind them.”

I Can Different Play Behinds Roles

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“I was really nervous about people booing, because my mother had gone for a film 20 years earlier and had a terrible time with people booing, whistling, so I knew that in Cannes people can get aggressive.”

People Years Film Mother Gone Terrible Nervous Aggressive Whistling Cannes Terrible Times Booing

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“I haven't found a comfortable place onstage. I'm sure it doesn't have to be comfortable, but I'm very nervous, so I don't enjoy myself.”

Found Enjoy Havens Comfortable Nervous

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“I didn't go to acting school, so it was great to be able to rehearse for a month or two, to workshop, and be with a director who even gave me acting exercises.”

Two Able School Acting Months Exercise Directors Workshops

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“I'd love to be able to write again, but I'm so repetitive. And it was all about fear. Never positive. Just indulgent about my sadness.”

Writing Able Sadness Repetitive

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“I think I developed a very closed personality. I didn't really have friends. I changed schools every year.”

Thinking Years School Changed Personality

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“Each time I changed, it was as if, on purpose, I didn’t want anyone to know too much about me, which of course now I regret, because I closed myself to everything. But it was my way of dealing with things.”

Ifs Knows Way Want Purpose Courses Too Much Changed Regret My Way I Regret

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“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.”

Father My Family Died Intense Father Died My Father Died

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“The problem with me in doing things simply is that I feel I'm not enough. It's all very embarrassing.”

Feels Enough Problem Embarrassing

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“I would love to be able to do a film. I would love to be able to focus on what excites me in watching actors.”

Able Film Actors Focus

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

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

Done Happens Careers Plans Lucky Things Happen

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“I don’t have tons of scripts where I don’t know what to choose and I’m trying to calculate. It’s either I read something and I have an impulse to do it, or in meeting someone, I want to work with them, but it’s always been very obvious.”

Knows Want Trying Meetings Scripts Obvious Impulse Meeting Someone

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“I was so lucky because I started working very young. And my father was very wealthy and I didn't need to work. I did my films.”

Needs Film Young Father Lucky Wealthy So Lucky

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“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.”

Wells Made Age Film Choices Waiting Months Six Paid Right Thing Coward Six Months

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“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."”

Thinking Knows Mean Said Actresses Agents Get Better Getting Old

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“Maybe, in the back of my head, I'm thinking I have to do as much as I can. It'll stop.”

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“I don't like being on my own. I'm happy meeting people and collaborating.”

People My Own Meetings Collaborating

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“I was so lucky because I started working very young. And my father was very wealthy and I didn't need to work. I did my films. 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, you know. It's so easy to say no to stuff, and then, after a while, it's very hard to go back in.”

Knows Needs Wells Made Hard Age Film Young Choices Father Easy Stuff Waiting Months Lucky Six Paid Right Thing Wealthy Coward Six Months So Lucky

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“I started so old, so the touring world will always be a foreign land for me. I'll never be someone who's "been on the road."”

World Land Touring Foreign Lands

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“I love being a beginner. It can be a terrible feeling because you're ashamed of everything you do, but it's so exciting at the same time.”

Feelings Love Is Terrible Exciting Ashamed Beginners

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“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.”

Want Feels Able Enjoy Actresses Singers

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“I don't feel that I've accomplished anything. I feel that it'll be better when I won't care as much, but it's so difficult to let go and accept all the wrong notes.”

Feels Care Difficult Accepting Letting Go Notes Accomplished

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“You don't accept your weaknesses the same way that you love the weaknesses of another artist, because when they make mistakes they don't look like weaknesses.”

Way Looks Artist Mistake Accepting Weakness Making Mistakes

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“When you fight against your own weaknesses, there's something embarrassing about it.”

Fighting Weakness Embarrassing

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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.”

Ifs Want Kind Stills Able Personality Ego No Point

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“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.”

Helping Help Me Shy Touring

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“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.”

Ifs Moving Order Effort Accepting Who You Are Get Back Artificial

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“I hope one day I will be able to be completely myself. Maybe I'll be wilder.”

Able One Day Wilder

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“There's always this thing of wanting to be elsewhere.”

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“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.”

People Ifs Ideas Together Acting Too Much Involved Singing Take Me Mixing

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“I came to understand that people come and see you because they like you. They don't come to throw things at you.”

People Like You

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“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.”

People Done Would Be Mother Father Felt Tough Scared Paris Criticize Concerts

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

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

People Care Wanted Father

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“It's difficult for me to write in English as it's not my first language, but French is even worse because of my father's influence and because the comparisons that I - not even other people - would make.”

People Writing Firsts Father Language Difficult Influence Comparison

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“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.”

Different Able Land Stranger Helpful Liberating Resonance Foreign Lands

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“I have ideas of subjects and atmospheres that I love. I either want to go in a tougher, stronger direction or do the opposite: simple ballads.”

Want Ideas Simple Subjects Opposites Stronger Atmosphere Ballads

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“I wish I could just accept that I'm not that good and not be shy about the fact that I'm not that professional.”

Facts Wish Accepting Shy

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“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.”

Thinking Writing Wonderful Antichrist

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“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.”

Thinking Kind Difficult Tough Antichrist

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“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.”

Motivation Track Barriers

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“With a film you go with the script that's already written. And I've never thought of a project, a film that would come from my own desire. I don't think I can do it. I need someone else's desire to be able to do something. With a record, it is completely different, it's a collaboration with another artist, but I'm willing to go into intimate places with no masks on.”

Thinking Different Film Desire Artist Intimate Mask Collaboration

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

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

Mother Father Felt Daughter

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“It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt inside.”

Feelings Jobs Hurt Hurt Feelings Hurting Inside

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?”

Thinking Knows Girl Degrading Being A Girl

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

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

Feels Watches Stupid Television

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

About the Author

Born: July 21, 1971
Known for: Actress
Quotes: 70

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