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"It's a way to exteriorize all my shit. To scream and cry and laugh on-screen, it's almost like black magic. You can do anything. I'm a dreamer, so that's a good job for me."
"Onstage is the only place I can fully express myself. It's magic."
"For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins. Even when I'm not working, I'm always living in my own world, imagining characters."
"I wanted to become an actress. I want to experience all those lives."
"At drama school I always picked the really evil roles. It's great you deal with your everyday emotions."
"I'm very reserved in real life, but when Bertolucci asks you to do a movie, you do it. Nudity is just another costume. Perverts might think otherwise."
"I don't understand why you can't see naked people on screen but we can see a baby being killed. It's quite strange."
"I hope after Kingdom Of Heaven, I'll have more opportunities and more choices. I hope to get more work. But I'm very picky. I take my time and I just want to enjoy what I'm doing. I turned down a lot of stuff, but we'll see what happens. I had more propositions after The Dreamers to play some femme fatales, but I try to avoid that."
"If there's a wonderful script in France, I'll definitely pursue my career there. It all depends on the role and the director. I don't want to be a Hollywood star. I just want to do my job and enjoy it. My aim is to find my true identity and to remain true to myself."
"Yes, I am a dreamer. I live in another planet."
"I'm just an actress. I want to keep the mystery. I mean, I know today that we have to talk about our private lives, and if you want to see me on the toilet, it's the same thing as talking. I don't know, I think that it's killing all of the mystery. The actresses in the '30s and '40s didn't talk about their private lives, and I think that it's much better if you keep the magic."
"I'm not morbid or gothic."
"In life I can keep a certain distance from people. I'm rather reserved, and people might think that I'm very haughty and impassive. But it's just a mask of protection."
"I don't like sexy outfits."
"I've been terribly spoiled at the beginning of my career. Even if, at a certain point, it's a poisoned gift. Because, then, how can I not become picky?"
"I'm not part of my era. I think people are very modern, they dress badly, there is no grace anymore. We have lost the dream."
"I read a lot of scripts and if I find them interesting - by the way, there are only a very few that attract me - I let people know that I would like to be in the film. Unfortunately, it's almost always actresses like Scarlett Johansson or Natalie Portman who get the roles."
"I don't have many French offers. It's strange, I don't know why. I only receive offers to act in foreign productions."
"I'd rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don't know what's coming up for me, my ambition is not to be typecast. So I'm working on my English accent, as well as my American one. I don't want to be like 'Okay, I'm French, and I want to succeed in Hollywood!' Juliette Binoche has set a good example of what I want to do, because she works all over the world, and that's what I want to do as well."
"I love walking in Paris. I love going to the movies and thinking of the movies. I love going to museums. I have a boring past actually."
"Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax."
"There are a lot of people who want to be famous, singers, actors, nowadays and, you know, it's like a roller-coaster. And when you are very sensitive - I'm very sensitive - you have to be very strong, you know, you have to just not pay attention to the people who hate you, you know?"
"I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all."
"I don't have a problem with someone having plastic surgery, but I think it's crazy for everyone to have the same body."
"I'll need my whole lifetime to polish my craft."
"My work method is very cerebral. I like to know everything about the character I'm going to play. I try to get in contact with her conscience, with the way she is and how she behaves, then I add some of my own life experience."
"People say I'm a perfectionist, but I know that perfection doesn't exist."
"A perfect man is the one who is able to understand and listen to a woman. And the first thing I'm attracted to is his voice."
"I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders."
"Everyone wants to work in America. Maybe not blockbusters or Terminator but to have the choice."
"Even when I'm not shooting a movie, I want to think that I'm somebody else, I'm creating somebody else in my head."
"I realized that real life is more important than professional life. I take a distance. If I fail with something, I stand up again and I tell myself: it's not serious. I'm a fighter, not ambitious."
"Sometimes people tell me in a sordid way: I saw you naked in The Dreamers. And they haven't seen me, but the character, because for an actress nudity is just another costume."
"When I'm acting I feel blood in my veins. I prefer cinema to reality."
"When people first meet me, they find me very odd. I keep myself at a distance, and I think that's why I'm so drawn to this profession. It allows me to wear a mask."
"I am very self conscious of my body. I do not like looking at myself. I sleep in pyjamas. Even with my boyfriend, I can't sleep naked."
"As a blonde, I felt very organized. As a brunette, I was more like myself. I had the impression it expressed my violence better."
"My mother thinks acting is a cruel profession. And for years, I wouldn't even acknowledge to myself that I wanted to be an actress. I was afraid of measuring up."
"I don't want to play the beautiful girl in the background. I want complex roles with many dimensions and colours."
"I think all actors actors are very, how do you say it, “narciss-sistic”, and all want recognition. We all want that, of course, but, at the same time I want to disappear, you know. To hide..."
"I am many things. I can be quite mad, and young, but I'm not the kind of person who goes out to nightclubs and goes crazy. I am more lying on my bed and listening to classical music to relax."
"I have a wonderful hairdresser, French, and I like it when it's a bit crazy and messy."
"Sometimes it's easier to play naked than clothed. I don't understand why nudity in movies is so controversial."
"I'm not just a bimbo in a bikini. Vesper is sassy and strong. She's key in shaping Bond's character. She's tough, she's clever." - On Vesper Lynd, her character in Casino Royale
"I'm aware that, for an actress, a role in a Bond movie can be a life-changing thing - and I know it can mean the beginning of the end. But that's not going to happen to me."
"People who think Bond is sexist don't have a sense of humor. Most of the girls are strong. They behave like men, almost. In this movie Vesper and Bond are equals. Vesper is funny, sharp, and sassy, but ambiguous."
"Daniel plays Bond as a gentleman. But he's also trashy and sexy and scary. And that's an attractive combination. Previous Bonds were cerebral, Craig is physical."
"I still have a lot to learn. I'm very cerebral. I should give more room to the instincts and the physical."
"When you see those beautiful women in Bond movies, it's funny, it's glamorous, it's great. It's just as an actor - especially as a woman - you have to be careful. I haven't proved a lot yet, so I don't want to be perceived as a bimbo."
"I love London. There are so many green areas and people are very polite. I have friends here. It feels like a new life but I'm still close to home."
"God, I am not like a model or anything. You know, I'm very simple. I look, like, 12. I'm not making a lot of effort actually. I'm always wearing jeans and feeling comfortable."
"It was wonderful to be surrounded by those actors - I could only aspire to their knowledge." - On working with the stellar cast of Kingdom Of Heaven
- On Louis Garrel, her co-star in The Dreamers:
- "We were really nervous but it was good because Louis was acting like a little kid of two years old, playing with his penis all the time," says Green. "It helped us to get rid of our inhibitions - and it was a good exercise to stop us being self-conscious".
- "Even after I had agreed to do it - and I knew exactly what I was getting involved in - I was having difficulty imagining actually doing it," she recalls. "Michael was also shy, and remained so. But Louis helped us a lot. He was like a big kid." Apparently, the actor came to Green's trailer and made her an "I'll show you mine if you show me yours" offer. "It was like children. We got that over and it certainly broke the ice."
- On Michael Pitt, her co-star in The Dreamers:
"I hadn't seen his movies before. I remember I was on a tour in France and my agent told me, 'Okay, look, Murder By Numbers, this is the actor, Michael Pitt'. And he had long hair, you know, big lips, and I thought, 'Oh my God, he's a girl, or…?', but no, I was very impressed, I really like him very much. He looks like an angel but he's got a lot of violence, he's very complex. No, I love him.".
- On Edward Norton, her co-star in Kingdom Of Heaven:
- "My scenes with Edward Norton were the hardest, because he's an idol of mine."
- "When I read the script, Baldwin was one of my favorite roles; he moved me so much," Green said. "And then when I screen tested, it was with Orlando Bloom and Edward Norton. Edward is one of my favorite actors. He's an idol."
Green's first scene with Norton was Baldwin's death scene.
"It was extremely difficult," she said. "I had to pretend that this was my brother, and I thought, 'How can I do this? I can't. I can't.' I was so stressed out. I don't know how to translate that into English, but I was a bit disturbed because when he did this scene, he reminded me of someone I knew who was dying. Edward has the sensitivity of a child and is able to do anything - anything. He's very rare as an actor. It was like a dream."
- On Orlando Bloom, her co-star in Kingdom Of Heaven:
- "We have a lot of chemistry on screen but it is very dangerous to mix the two.
"A lot of actors do, they want to be as good as possible and start really having sex with their co-star.
"They get confused and it leads to a lot of problems.
"I was not close to falling for Orlando. He is a wonderful person, but I cannot imagine him as a boyfriend."
- "He's true to himself and funny. He's also scared. He's not like the perfect man. He has some doubts, of course, and he will say it."
- "Working with him was a great experience. He was very sweet and down to earth."
- "We had one day of rehearsing together and he immediately put me at ease. I think he's just a normal guy who can't quite cope with being a big star with this huge female fan base. But I think this role is good for him. As Balian, he's turning from a young romantic lead into a rugged hero. From boy to man."
Info collected and/or translated from several international articles and interviews.
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