Audrey Tautou Quotes

1. When I wanted to do this job it was for making movies not for the glitter. Of course with the fame I got more offers from different countries so it is great to have huge luxuries for an actor to work and to have the choice. But after, in life, I can't enjoy anonymity. But I can hide myself.


2. I like the light that comes off metal shutters at siesta time in the summer, having a break from driving in the shops at motorway services, the odour of petrol at petrol stations, rolling down little slopes. I hate it when you tread in a puddle and the water soaks your socks.

3. I show through my movies that I can do something else. But I always play strong-minded characters. I think it's maybe because I'm like that. I love being by myself.


4. I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises.

5. I'm a tomb when it comes to my personal life. I never give even a mote of dust of that away.


6. I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.

7. Hollywood doesn't need me. After "Amélie," I didn't get any offers that interested me. I have very eclectic tastes, but it's important for me that a movie be sensitive, clever and subtle.

8. When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.





9. Everyone thinks I have an ethnic origin, and could be from North Africa or parts of Asia, or Italy and Spain. But, as far as I know, I'm 100-percent French.

10. I can be maternal with my friends.


11. I believe in God, but I am not sure to trust Him so much.


12. I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.

13. I figured that maybe it would be interesting to try a blockbuster, but I never thought it'd happen to me.

14. I wouldn't mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly don't want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean.

15. I think it's very difficult for French people to work in Hollywood because it's such a huge industry, and to be able to create some space for yourself is a hard job. Plus, the language doesn't help. You can work almost only as a foreign character. Then there's the French film industry, which is not amazingly well, but is able to finance big productions. We have wonderful directors - they might not be as famous as Steven Spielberg, but they bring me so much pleasure.

16. I'm not ready to do any compromises for my work.






17. (on Laetitia Colombani) I found her very precise. She knew exactly what she wanted. Even though she's very young, she managed to control the whole production. She knew her subject - this strange kind of madness - very well because she had studied it for a very long time.

18. I've never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I've never had a desire to work there.



19. I have no idea what it is about me that makes people connect. But I'm shy with people I don't know.

20. I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.


21. It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

22. I am, at the end of the day, a French actress. I am not saying I will never shoot an English-language movie again, but my home, my community, my career is rooted in France. I would never move to Los Angeles.

23. It's difficult to feel that people are looking at you in the street. I don't like the fuss.






24. Usually, I read the script very often. I think that everything is hiding in the script. After, I try to get some information documents about the character, as much as I can know about her. After, I can imagine whatever I want.

25. People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.




26. I'm not proud of myself. I never watch me, thinking: "Oh, you are (so great). You will be in this paper, this paper, this paper. You will have this many pages in this magazine".

27. After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need.



28. Acting is ephemeral. Without having an attitude, there are some more important things in life.

29. I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else…for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries.

30. I'm not sure I'm quite ready to have someone be a prospector of jobs for me, because I believe there's some kind of destiny involved with meeting people…some things are just meant to happen.

31. In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.

32. When I was a little girl, I loved monkeys. I wanted to be a primatologist. I went to the careers office to ask how. Because nobody could give me a good answer, I opted for acting.



33. After Amelie was such a huge success that, strangely, I didn't want to do a movie which could be a huge success. I wanted to go and to do something smaller and more discreet.


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