Marion Cotillard
Marion Cotillard
Marion Cotillard; born 30 September 1975) is a French actress, singer-songwriter, environmentalist and spokesperson for Greenpeace. She has received international acclaim and awards for her performances in films such as A Very Long Engagement, La Vie en Rose, Nine, Inception, Midnight in Paris, Rust and Bone, The Immigrant, Two Days, One Nightand Macbeth. She is also known for being the face of Lady Dior handbags since 2008. In 2014, Cotillard was named "The Most Bankable French Actress of the 21st...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth30 September 1975
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
As a teenager, I didn’t want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me.
I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.
I love to work this way - I love the time of preparation. If you feed yourself with all the information and you get to understand who the character is then you can really be her.
I was raised with the idea of beauty in a different way. To me, it is something that really comes out of you and surrounds you.
You cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness.
You have to invest if you want to restore balance to the world.
Sometimes you don't need to explain how you care and love someone so much, but I really love him as a person and as a director. I wanted to be perfect for him [Michael Mann]. I wanted to give the best of my best of my best. I don't know if I did, but I was touched by him. He's totally inspirational.
If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story.
I'm always 100% committed to a character, a story and a director, and with Michael Mann it was 1,000%. I don't know how to explain this...
I'll never approach a part in the same way again. Piaf taught me so much. In terms of my work, I think I'll enjoy it even more than before, because now I know that characters truly exist in their own right. I'll have a way to bring them even more intensely to life.
I don't stick to special techniques, conscious techniques.
The first thing, the main thing, about how I work is I need to understand the character.
I would love to go into an animal's dream - like a lion's or a cat's. I'm sure that's pretty awesome.
My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else.