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I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.
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I love being a beginner. It can be a terrible feeling because you're ashamed of everything you do, but it's so exciting at the same time.
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There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that.
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I haven't found a comfortable place onstage. I'm sure it doesn't have to be comfortable, but I'm very nervous, so I don't enjoy myself.
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Maybe, in the back of my head, I'm thinking I have to do as much as I can. It'll stop.
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I used to hate being recognised.
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I don't want to feel that I'm a singer or an actress - being able to say that those are just experiences is what I enjoy.
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I like to play roles different from myself so I can hide behind them.
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I wish I could just accept that I'm not that good and not be shy about the fact that I'm not that professional.
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I hope I'll consider my next part, having learnt from this one.
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I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time.
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I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.
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The problem with me in doing things simply is that I feel I'm not enough. It's all very embarrassing.
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I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.
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Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.
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Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that.
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I don't have a career plan. I've never done that. Things happen accidentally and I've been lucky.
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In France I'm very private, I don't like talking about my life, and I imagined that people would think that I'm now an open book.
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When you fight against your own weaknesses, there's something embarrassing about it.
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I was putting all those pressures on myself.
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At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.
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I'd love to be able to write again, but I'm so repetitive. And it was all about fear. Never positive. Just indulgent about my sadness.
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I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest.
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It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt inside.
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I think, being an actress, you know that you're getting old. I'm 44. I mean, an agent said when I turned 40, "It won't get better."
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I was so lucky because I started working very young. And my father was very wealthy and I didn't need to work. I did my films.
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I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.
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I don't feel I have to share everything.
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In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.
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I didn't want to change my personality onstage, but I still had to build some kind of ego to be able to go up there. If not, there's no point.
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You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?
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I came to understand that people come and see you because they like you. They don't come to throw things at you.
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The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.
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I thought people wouldn't take me seriously if too much acting was involved in the singing. But now I love the idea of mixing everything together.
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I don't like being on my own. I'm happy meeting people and collaborating.
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I think I developed a very closed personality. I didn't really have friends. I changed schools every year.
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You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.
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I would love to be able to do a film. I would love to be able to focus on what excites me in watching actors.
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The more sincere I could be, the better it would be for the film.
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I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again.
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I was very attached to my family when my father died. I was 19. I was about to go live with my father right when he died, so it was very intense.
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I have ideas of subjects and atmospheres that I love. I either want to go in a tougher, stronger direction or do the opposite: simple ballads.
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Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.
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I hope one day I will be able to be completely myself. Maybe I'll be wilder.
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There's always this thing of wanting to be elsewhere.
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The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.
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The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.
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I started so old, so the touring world will always be a foreign land for me. I'll never be someone who's "been on the road."
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My father loved me and he wanted to work with me and he didn't care what people would say.
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Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.
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I couldn't do anything else, I enjoy it so much. But I find it tough.
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It's nice that we have all these different films.
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