Top 81 Rampling Quotes
#1. I was getting a lot of editorial, as in lots of pages in 'Vogue,' but it's far more important to get your dresses on the back of a famous person. Charlotte Rampling in Bruce Oldfield. That sells.
Bruce Oldfield
#2. I don't know Hollywood very well. I've never lived in Los Angeles or New York. But what I can see in Paris, where I live, is that actresses like Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Charlotte Rampling, still get the chance to play strong, sexy roles even though they're not 20.
Monica Bellucci
#3. Charlotte Rampling is someone I've wanted to work with for a very long time. I've always looked up to her as an actress and it's a reason why I feel brave to do a film like Melancholia. So, to me she's the ultimate.
Kirsten Dunst
#4. Ce n'est pas fini jusqu'a ce que je dis c'est fini," Rampling called out. "It's not over until I say it's over.
James Patterson
#5. For me, my favourite actresses are like Charlotte Rampling or Gena Rowlands ... people who have always stepped outside of the restraints of a certain type of woman or story. I always like those movies the best.
Kirsten Dunst
#6. Kate Winslet [for Steve Jobs movie, 2015] is the darling. If you wanna be the king you gotta kill the king. I think Charlotte [Rampling] is the dark horse on this one. No one does classic beauty better than her.
Bun B.
#7. Charlotte Rampling, when she was younger, looked exactly like my wife. That's one of the reasons that when I first saw my wife, my knees buckled. Based on her looks alone, she was already in my kitchen making eggs.
Denis Leary
#8. We must be very careful when we say that somebody giving you compliments about your looks should be offensive. I think women really should look at why they're being offended by that.
Charlotte Rampling
#9. There she is in one of those tiny white bikinis, which is infinitely more seductive than pure nakedness.
Anne Rampling
#10. I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves.
Charlotte Rampling
#11. Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.
Charlotte Rampling
#13. If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life into your painting.
Charlotte Rampling
#14. You can never really judge your work because once it's done, it's done.
Charlotte Rampling
#15. I've lived through deaths in my family and I've lived through separations in my family so those are the big ones. Those are the ones that press the biggest buttons in human beings' lives.
Charlotte Rampling
#16. I'd had a French education for three years, my father being in the army. From 9 to 12, I went to French school. I've been sort of part of the culture, part of the geography, since I was quite young - the imprint was there.
Charlotte Rampling
#17. I know I have great inner strength; I always have. I can blank things out, cut people out, and I know that I can go and live in a cave on my own if necessary.
Charlotte Rampling
#18. You decide to give your trust over to somebody. And if you don't decide to, then for me, it's really not worth going into collective enterprises; you should just work alone.
Charlotte Rampling
#19. I think what we do best, in the artistic world, are the things where we're handicapped.
Charlotte Rampling
#20. I must explore desert ground and see what can grow. But there are limits. I know in my heart what I would never do.
Charlotte Rampling
#21. I started writing diaries, and mine were horrible. Oh, the monotony. Oh, the angst. I said, 'I don't want anyone to find these!' I destroyed them.
Charlotte Rampling
#22. If you don't have a certain amount of stage fright, then it's not going to be that interesting. It's not going to have the inner vibration. I think screen work needs inner vibration.
Charlotte Rampling
#23. I got the O.B.E because I represent England outside of England more ... but thinking of me as an actor, I haven't done all the classical theatre, all the great roles. Think of Helen Mirren and me. Helen, who I adore, is a friend - should be Dame. I am the rebel, the revolutionary on the side.
Charlotte Rampling
#24. You give, actually, what you have in your inner world through your emotion and feeling. That's what you can give; it's not so much about "acting" in a sense of playing something that's very different to you.
Charlotte Rampling
#25. I think the reason I have secrets is because there are a lot of things I haven't been able to let out, and I'm able to let them out through the screen and this medium.
Charlotte Rampling
#26. I wish you'd fall in love with me," she said.
"Why?"
"Because you're really someone worth falling in love with. And if we were in love, I wouldn't be drifting. I wouldn't be nobody. At least not while I was with you.
Anne Rampling
#27. My style very much leans towards the masculine, but I think I am feminine in it - I like the feminine body in masculine shapes. The androgynous look suits me.
Charlotte Rampling
#28. Fashion is not trivial. It's a huge industry and a big part of our lives. Fashion is about us - how we look and present ourselves, how we can change ourselves, and our perceptions. You can dress up to be quite glorious creatures - it's all a very important part of life.
Charlotte Rampling
#29. We can never know ... But maybe it's because no black actors merited being nominated.Why put people into categories?
Charlotte Rampling
#30. To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve.
Charlotte Rampling
#31. I don't want to play everything. So I'll seek out roles that I'll say, 'This is edgy. This is fun. This is wicked. This suits me.'
Charlotte Rampling
#32. Painting and photography keep the creative channel open, and for an actor, it's to keep alive, it's to keep awake, it's to keep watching, it's to keep feeling, it's to keep enjoying, to keep that sensuality of feeling alive.
Charlotte Rampling
#33. If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words.
Charlotte Rampling
#34. I was incredibly fatalistic. I just thought, 'If it works, it works.' But I've always been like that. I've never been easily impressed, and I've never thought I didn't deserve something. If I got it, then I deserved it.
Charlotte Rampling
#35. One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either.
Charlotte Rampling
#36. Ever since I was a small child, I've had this feeling - it's in my nature, and so it's not even pretentious - that if everyone's going one way, I will go the other, just by some kind of spirit of defiance.
Charlotte Rampling
#37. The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.
Charlotte Rampling
#38. I'm very flattered to be called a style icon! But it's simple, my style; it's just men's suits and shoes. That's the basic premise.
Charlotte Rampling
#39. I am not qualified to be a Dame. To be Dame you have to represent England in a way that I don't.
Charlotte Rampling
#40. My mother's incredible diaries, which she'd written from when she was 21, and even before that. She fell in love with my father when she was 12.
Charlotte Rampling
#41. I am actually a very unspeaking person. I'm not really good in social situations. People expect me to be more outgoing. I don't know why. They think I have this kind of assurance.
Charlotte Rampling
#42. We all have loads of information. What an actor does is bring it to the surface. I jump without a net because that's how I am. The information comes out because I am brave enough to allow it. I'm not brave as a human being in everyday life. I'm brave when I'm acting.
Charlotte Rampling
#43. By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.
Charlotte Rampling
#44. I know a lot about fear in itself, and lived with fear a lot. Lived with anxiety a lot, lived with the things that - most human beings, at some stage in their lives, are going to live with these feelings.
Charlotte Rampling
#45. It's sort of fun. If someone's eyeballing you, it makes you feel good.
Charlotte Rampling
#46. What beauty brings is huge. It brings great privilege, great power and potential to do many things. If you are beautiful, doors open for you; people smile at you; you are accepted in places where others aren't. So the relationship that people have with beauty, in a sense, is almost deforming.
Charlotte Rampling
#47. I am fascinated by the whole process of what it's like to be alive, whether it's unbelievably uncomfortable and horrible or whether it's quite nice.
Charlotte Rampling
#48. A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all.
Charlotte Rampling
#50. Usually, watching yourself is pretty awful. People think we all love watching our own films. We don't. We cringe away from it.
Charlotte Rampling
#51. You go though a period of immense pain when reality meets the dream.
Charlotte Rampling
#52. There are moments when things just break apart and not really for very valid reasons, either. But they just change your life and make you go in different directions.
Charlotte Rampling
#53. When a subject pops into a director's head, you either fit in there somewhere, or you don't. An actor is only who he is. Especially as you get older, there's not as much of a range of potentially feasible parts.
Charlotte Rampling
#54. One mysterious person looking at another mysterious person equals what? Another mystery.
Charlotte Rampling
#55. A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin.
Charlotte Rampling
#56. I'm not very good at talking and being with people and being gregarious and outgoing. I love people, but I have great difficulty doing it.
Charlotte Rampling
#57. When I see a young girl, I can see why you would be attracted if you were a man. I remember when it was like that for me, too, and it was nice.
Charlotte Rampling
#58. Training is fabulous because it gives you a basis, a strong structure, so that when you're unbelievably nervous and you think that you can't get a word out, you will get the word out.
Charlotte Rampling
#59. I think the happiest time of my life was when I was in my late teens. I was a little bit of an it-girl. Making myself seen. And it was a wonderful time to be young.
Charlotte Rampling
#60. There's always a time for change, and you should never be frightened of it.
Charlotte Rampling
#62. I was very friendly with Jimi Hendrix because my boyfriend at the time, Tommy Weber, was making a film about him, so I would go to all of his shows.
Charlotte Rampling
#64. When I take on something , I take the whole thing on.It's not even a question of separating "Oh, am I going to be naked" I go with my whole person.
Charlotte Rampling
#65. I remember my father saying to me once, 'I finally know how to describe you, Charlotte. You're prickly.' And he was right - prickly is a very good description. If I had to be an animal, I'd probably be a porcupine.
Charlotte Rampling
#66. I could have been a superstar in America - I was certainly taken out there. But I said, 'No way, Jose, I'm not staying here in this madhouse.'
Charlotte Rampling
#67. I regret not having enough training, I trained for a year at The Royal Court, but I very quickly went off to do films and television.
Charlotte Rampling
#69. For an actor, if you're not doing a job, you can't just practice acting. Your instrument is your whole person.
Charlotte Rampling
#70. You can't fool an audience with lots of bits and pieces. You have to lead them somewhere.
Charlotte Rampling
#71. If you were to find all the people I've worked with and ask them what they think of me, they're all just going to say, 'Oh, wonderful', and it'll just be a lot of blah.
Charlotte Rampling
#72. Go out there and try on everything - short skirts, long skirts, mid length, little jackets, men's clothing - and really look at yourself; really walk around in the clothes. Don't just take someone else's advice. You must feel you in these clothes and feel what it's like to live in them.
Charlotte Rampling
#73. She's one of these beautiful women who's just a nobody and a nothing, and when they make it big, they always fall apart. Money can't do anything for them. Fame only makes things worse.
Anne Rampling
#74. When people want to see your film, you're over the moon because you've actually made real contact. That's something very special.
Charlotte Rampling
#75. I can be seen as not being very communicative, or rather mysterious, or distant, or rather cold - all those things. Yeah, I know I can give off that impression. So I am that, too.
Charlotte Rampling
#76. French women have been made beautiful by the French people - they're very aware of their bodies, the way they move and speak, they're very confident of their sexuality. French society's made them like that.
Charlotte Rampling
#77. I haven't got ambitions. Actually, I'm determined not to die until I get very old. I want to be a great-great-great-grandmother.
Charlotte Rampling
#78. Because one has the animal instinct to seek out the people that suits one - you see people that go on life's journeys and get muddled along the way. If you look at their lives they've always gone with the wrong people ... can you say it's the wrong people - I don't know ...
Charlotte Rampling
#79. I felt very special in Paris, more special than I felt in London. I love London for different reasons. I've always been close to London, being English. But somehow, there's something special about living as an Englishwoman in Paris.
Charlotte Rampling
#80. European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films.
Charlotte Rampling
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