Top 66 Charlotte Gainsbourg Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. 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.
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#3. 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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#4. The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.
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#5. 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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#6. I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest.
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#7. I don't have a career plan. I've never done that. Things happen accidentally and I've been lucky.
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#10. I hope one day I will be able to be completely myself. Maybe I'll be wilder.
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#11. 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.
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#12. 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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#14. When you fight against your own weaknesses, there's something embarrassing about it.
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#15. Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that.
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#16. 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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#17. 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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#19. 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.
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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.
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#24. 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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#25. My father loved me and he wanted to work with me and he didn't care what people would say.
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#26. I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again.
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#27. I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play.
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#28. The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.
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#30. 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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#31. 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.
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#32. In France I'm very private, I don't like talking about my life, and I imagined that people would think that I'm now an open book.
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#33. 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.
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#36. At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.
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#37. 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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#38. 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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#39. In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.
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#40. It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt inside.
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#41. 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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#45. 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.
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#46. 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.
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#48. 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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#50. I think I developed a very closed personality. I didn't really have friends. I changed schools every year.
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#51. 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.
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#52. 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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#53. 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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#54. 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.
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#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. 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.
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#58. 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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#59. 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.
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#60. 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.
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#62. 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.
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#63. The problem with me in doing things simply is that I feel I'm not enough. It's all very embarrassing.
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#64. The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.
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#65. I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time.
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#66. 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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