Parillaud Quotes

#1. Is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalizing to add color - it's a pot boiler really, but I think it will show how isolated a person feels when he is suffering a breakdown ... I've tried to picture my world and the people in it as seen through the distorting lens of a bell jar.

Sylvia Plath

#2. Actors should be timeless and impersonal.

Anne Parillaud

#3. I don't like the Samba; it's nonsense. With a lot of these Latin dances I can't really understand what they're all about. I like the Rumba and the Paso Doble but the others I could take or leave.

Anton Du Beke

#4. Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.

Anne Parillaud

#5. I needed to see you. He repeats himself.
I smile. I like that word, need. It's not want. He had no choice because it was a need to see me. I like that.

Tara Brown

#6. Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself.

Anne Parillaud

#7. Tell them I said something.

Pancho Villa

#8. You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave.

William Shakespeare

#9. To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface?

Anne Parillaud

#10. On the surface I look fragile and insecure; you have to know me very well.

Anne Parillaud

#11. It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It's a miracle. I don't understand it. I live it very intensely.

Anne Parillaud

#12. I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.

Anne Parillaud

#13. I had never even thought I'd be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It's the same career.

Anne Parillaud

#14. I adore people who ask questions and who cause others to share in their search.

Anne Parillaud

#15. You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.

Anne Parillaud