Melanie Laurent Quotes
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The perfect life would be to have an amazing part every year and to spend all my free time to just write.
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I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.
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Holiday? Is like, what? I'm a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need to find a place for three weeks and work but sleep in the morning, maybe write a little bit, have a glass of red wine. That's my perfect holiday.
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When I was shooting with Tarantino and Mike Mills and amazing directors, it made me think that I would never be a director. It's obviously too hard.
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I never practice before, I never work hours on a script. I just choose my characters and trust them, and after that, it's about the director taking your hand.
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There are a lot of French actresses who just hate me now. I've made enemies.
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I didn't really want to act. Gerard Depardieu discovered me when I was 14 and asked if I wanted to make movies and I said, 'Why not?
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When you make successful movies, everyone on set takes care of you, everybody is so nice and you disconnect from reality.
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A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.
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It's so French to be a cat person.
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I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.
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Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that; I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes.
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I never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14.
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I love acting, but directing and writing have always been just as important. I started to write so many things when I was even a child. I wrote my first play when I was, like, seven years old. That was me - a writer - for years.
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I think I was, like, maybe frustrated for many years because I didn't try to direct. And since I made my movie I'm just like, 'It's great.
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I'm taking a break from music... everyone was so mean about it and it was so hard that I wanted to die.
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I'm in love with love, so I'm always taking risks! I think it's part of love, taking risks.
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I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.
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When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me.
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France is an old country that needs to wake up.
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I'm not a crazy old cat lady!
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I like Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. I have some great Balenciaga jackets and I'm shoe crazy.
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Every time a director calls me and says, 'If you practice a lot in two months, can you be an American?' And I always tell them, 'Well, maybe but I'm French. So it's going to be hard to be someone else.'
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Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.
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Every time I play in a movie, I never expect that it'll be huge. I don't like thinking about that, because it's so scary.
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I'm really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have no fears.
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It seems like the more you grow up the more you fear things.
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For me, it was a lot of pressure to make another movie after 'Inglourious Basterds' because I didn't want to do something wrong. I wanted to have a beautiful project for another American movie.
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I'm not scared of growing old, I'm just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do.
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