Seigner Quotes

#1. Sometimes when you do big movies, you can lose sometimes a little bit of soul.

Emmanuelle Seigner

#2. Age is a number on a piece of paper.

Emmanuelle Seigner

#3. I grew up around the Luxembourg Gardens, so I guess that is my best memory.

Emmanuelle Seigner

#4. My sister Mathilde is an actress, but more like a French Jennifer Aniston. She's famous just in France. She's very commercial and does big comedies. So, acting was part of my family, and that's how I was raised.

Emmanuelle Seigner

#5. I don't really want to find myself face-to-face with 10,000 paparazzi. I just want to be comfortable.

Emmanuelle Seigner

#6. I've changed a lot, too! I'm different, too. I have far more in some ways to offer and far less in other ways to offer. That's life. And, you know, life goes on!

Elaine Stritch

#7. Hey, we just enjoy it. I think we think we're getting the hang of this thing, you know?

Keith Richards

#8. I don't like French food. I like everything but French food.

Emmanuelle Seigner

#9. I need to stop getting into situations where all my options are potentially bad.

Jack Campbell

#10. I never had the slightest desire to have cosmetic surgery - partly because I don't want to look like an alien and partly because it's nice to age in a way. Also, I think that if your soul is beautiful, then the rest of you stays beautiful.

Emmanuelle Seigner

#11. When my husband won the Palme d'Or in 2002, I wore the same dress two days in a row. My daughter said, 'Mom! Did you sleep in your dress?' But I think it's cool to wear the same thing. I have to feel comfortable.

Emmanuelle Seigner

#12. I'm sure my children will be artists. I hope they will direct because it is much more interesting. Acting is great, and I love it, but it is very passive, and it depends on other people's desire, and you depend on others all the time.

Emmanuelle Seigner

#13. I did great things in the theater. I did some nice roles, 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' or 'La Vie en Rose.' And I love my role in 'Frantic.'

Emmanuelle Seigner

#14. Whatever you say it is, is simply what YOU SAY it is.

Alfred Korzybski

#15. I started as a model when I was 14 because I wanted to make money.

Emmanuelle Seigner

#16. Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.

Agnes Smedley

#17. I've always been very good at convincing people. For instance, if I arrive in an airport and I'm in economy, I can always convince the guy to put me in first class.

Emmanuelle Seigner

#18. There's a lot of good roles for men, always, and for very young girls. But for women, not so many.

Emmanuelle Seigner

#19. I don't like the idea of fitting into a mould so as to conform. What I like is the danger, the difference - being unpredictable.

Emmanuelle Seigner

#20. You can't know what you don't know. You can't know about things you have yet to discover.

Jonathan Raymond

#21. I think age is just something written down on a piece of paper. I mean, you come across 20-year-olds who are like old people sometimes. I've never taken much account of age throughout my life - my own or anyone else's.

Emmanuelle Seigner

#22. I come from a family of actors. My grandfather was like a Laurence Olivier with the Comedie Francaise. Since I was four I went every week to the Comedie Francaise. My aunt and grandmother were there, but my grandfather was a big star.

Emmanuelle Seigner

#23. When I did 'Frantic,' I didn't have a lot of experience. My English was so bad, and I did an OK job, I think, but I was not amazing.

Emmanuelle Seigner

#24. It's heartening when people hear for the first time that their vote really matters.

Hill Harper

#25. In France, I guess there's something like a tyranny in mentalities - we accept success badly, beauty, money. People are certainly envious, and this creates negative energy. This is annoying. I suffered a great deal at one time. I had to fight harder than others. Add to that my marriage to Polanski.

Emmanuelle Seigner

#26. Everything in life, bad or good, makes you change and grow - happily, because if it didn't, we'd be machines.

Emmanuelle Seigner

#27. Acting in another language is great, and I've done that. But you can't do it as well as you can do it in your own language.

Emmanuelle Seigner