Charlotte Gainsbourg Quotes
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When you love someone, you don't want them to suffer at all.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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My father loved me and he wanted to work with me and he didn't care what people would say.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.
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Maybe, in the back of my head, I'm thinking I have to do as much as I can. It'll stop.
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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.
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I don't feel I have to share everything.
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I came to understand that people come and see you because they like you. They don't come to throw things at you.
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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.
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You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?
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I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.
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There's always this thing of wanting to be elsewhere.
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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.
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I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest.
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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.
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I think I developed a very closed personality. I didn't really have friends. I changed schools every year.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I like to play roles different from myself so I can hide behind them.
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