Sagnier Quotes

#1. It's funny because I remember when I came to the U.S. with 'Swimming Pool,' the movie did well, and it was great box office for a French movie, but I remember I was a bit upset because all people talked to me about was the nudity.

Ludivine Sagnier

#2. What I'm looking for is the variety of choices and the opportunity to work with great directors - that's what I'm looking for.

Ludivine Sagnier

#3. I hate to recreate the whole world into my imagination.

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#4. Having a movie that lasts and makes your image imprinted into the history of cinema, it's very positive.

Ludivine Sagnier

#5. There's a kind of chemical spark that comes sometimes with the character, that you don't even have to think about how she is reacting, you just let yourself go. You just let the character take you, instead of taking the character.

Ludivine Sagnier

#6. he looked up at once when

Diana Gabaldon

#7. 'Swimming Pool' was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me.

Ludivine Sagnier

#8. When I was in the U.S. for 'Swimming Pool,' people had asked me, 'So are you going to settle down in Hollywood?' And I said, 'No, I'm French! I am living in France. I am not going to be American.'

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#9. Good characters are rare. As long as I find one or two a year, I'm happy.

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#10. Do you see me, Shea?"
Never had I seen anyone so clearly. "I will never look away.

A.L. Jackson

#11. I really have problems with horror movies. I don't watch them. It's a feeling I don't want to have in cinema. I'm too reactive. It's too draining to watch that kind of movie.

Ludivine Sagnier

#12. In 'Swimming Pool,' all the colors are very warm, sunny, the pool and all that. In 'Love Crime,' everything is so cold, and it's all inside skyscrapers.

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#13. Hollywood is a wonderful machine for making big movies. In France, we make smaller and more personal films, but if things keep changing, this will disappear. The industry in Italy is practically gone. Cinecitta now is used mostly by filmmakers from others places, like Martin Scorsese.

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#14. When I was in my 20s, I thought that being known for 'Swimming Pool' was kind of a burden. Like, 'OK, everyone thinks I am this tanned bimbo,' and I was having problems coping with that image.

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#15. To me, the director is the most important, rather than the story.

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#16. I would like to perform more in English. But there have to be many good things gathered for me to be willing to do a movie. I watch trailers of every new American movie and I'm, like, 'OK, I'm not missing anything!'

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#17. That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.

William Shakespeare

#18. As an actress, I'm supposed to create something from head to toes, with clues, with lines, with shapes, and even with that power, I felt lost and not in control.

Ludivine Sagnier

#19. In modelling or football, being 30 is very bad. But, for an actress, ageing is like wine. You taste better and better because your body, your mind, your feelings, all this is a tool and it's getting sharper with time.

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#20. You know, when you start, especially with me, I didn't really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater.

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#21. It's funny how human beings are so entertained by crimes.

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#22. I don't act to be popular or see my face on the cover of magazines every time I go out to get coffee. I don't want to think about me all the time and what I look like.

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#23. I'd say people recognize me, but having children recognize me is the best. It is a very special thing. Suddenly you feel like you have the power to make the children's dreams come true, and it's better than anything else.

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#24. Elvis, heal me, save me. Elvis, make me be born again in the perfect Elvis light.

Mojo Nixon

#25. I'm not interested in making money, or being wealthy enough to have a villa in Beverly Hills, because in Paris I don't need that much money.

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#26. It's impossible to explain to people who you are in a five-minute interview on TV.

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#27. I think racing and riding are two different elements of cycling. You either want to or not depending on what you want to get out of it.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

#28. You know, the character of Isabelle in 'Love Crime' is the only character I feel the furthest from. I have nothing to share with her, so it was really difficult. Being an actor of composition is something, but you always base yourself on something you know about.

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#29. If I were thinking clearly, Leonard, I would tell you that I wrestle alone in the dark, in the deep dark. And that only I can know, only I can understand my own condition. You live with the threat, you tell me you live with the threat of my extinction. Leonard, I live with it too.

Michael Cunningham

#30. There's a certain window of time in the middle of the night out in Middle America where there's no bar open and nothing on TV. If you don't want to do too many drugs, you have to start bodily mutilation.

Ani DiFranco

#31. I would love to meet some directors, and why not do some other movies in America? But, I'm not obsessed with this idea. I'm feeling very free in Europe.

Ludivine Sagnier