Sophie Marceau Quotes

1. All I will say is that I'm playing a lot of different roles that, to be honest, are more interesting and demanding than any I've played before. 


2. To be honest I don't really know because I really didn't care when I was writing about mixing up reality with what was not reality.

3. What's nice is that when you have to put a wig on, funny costumes. You know it's like being a little girl playing with accessories.



4. (on Leonardo DiCaprio) What is he - eleven? thirteen? I could play his nanny.


5. And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies.

6. I'm a good storyteller.

7. When you work with a director like this you don't have a real challenge because he makes the work very easy. He knows what he wants as a director.






8. You know I could stop working as an actress and still be doing promotion on movies I did ten years ago. And I don't like to do the same thing forever.

9. (on love rival Isabelle Adjani) I'm eight years younger, 3 inches taller and I've got boobs!



10. Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language.


11. So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English.

12. Sometimes I don't understand what he says because he's so American…He improvises a lot. I don't, so we complete each other very well.

13. There is no doubt that this film is autobiographical, but at the same time it also tries to portray an ordinary couple in a language that everyone can understand.

14. You know French means like sophisticated, well educated, so far.

15. Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.

16. What I am interested in is the present time.


17. Oh, I'm not English, I cannot talk on behalf of an English person. I'm French. I can say about French. They are quite emotional, though, and they talk about their emotions.

18. I need the seasons to live to the rhythm of rain and sun.

19. Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people.

20. When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with.

21. But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you are always an actress.

22. I felt sometimes too responsible as an actor because people promote violence or weird things that I don't want to be part of.

23. I think I'm a tough person, but for sure, I would talk under torture.

24. Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you.


25. Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

26. Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

27. You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you.

28. I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.


29. I have been making films for the last 25 years and have played characters created and inspired by others, and I often enjoyed myself doing that.

30. I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday. I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too.

31. And that's how you have to be smart, is are you believable in this part or aren't you believable. And it has nothing to do with your talent.

32. Mel Gibson would not be a good James Bond.

33. As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.




34. Sometimes you choose the wrong actor, he could be the best actor ever, but he's not cast in the right part then it doesn't work.

35. I hate those kisses, you know, american kisses, with the tongues out. They're disgusting. I can't look, it's like porno!

36. I think it's almost easier to make people cry than to make people laugh.










37. It is something actresses need to go through and I think they look forward to being naked in a movie. I don't know why, but it is something you need to exhaust from yourself.

38. And that's how the world, I think, imagines French women you know like very womanly and seducing men and that's how they like to imagine them.

39. I want to spread my curiosity and my abilities farther than my continent, because I think being an actress is something universal… And I want to have more choices.


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