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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. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I understand the joy of having a female actress like Charlotte [Gainsbourg] and watching her give everything, and be able to capture it. — Jane Birkin

Ugliness is superior to beauty because it lasts longer. — Serge Gainsbourg

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. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

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. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

Maybe, in the back of my head, I'm thinking I have to do as much as I can. It'll stop. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I used to hate being recognised. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

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. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I like to play roles different from myself so I can hide behind them. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

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. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I hope I'll consider my next part, having learnt from this one. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

The problem with me in doing things simply is that I feel I'm not enough. It's all very embarrassing. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

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. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don't have a career plan. I've never done that. Things happen accidentally and I've been lucky. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

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. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

When you fight against your own weaknesses, there's something embarrassing about it. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I was putting all those pressures on myself. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

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. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt inside. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

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." — Charlotte Gainsbourg

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. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I know my limits. That's why I'm beyond. — Serge Gainsbourg

I like the night, I have clearer ideas in the dark. — Serge Gainsbourg

You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

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. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

The more sincere I could be, the better it would be for the film. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I couldn't do anything else, I enjoy it so much. But I find it tough. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

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. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I think I developed a very closed personality. I didn't really have friends. I changed schools every year. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I prefer ugliness to beauty, because ugliness endures. — Serge Gainsbourg

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. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

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. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

No matter the time, carried away the wind is Better your absence Thy indifference. — Serge Gainsbourg

I came to understand that people come and see you because they like you. They don't come to throw things at you. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you? — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I've succeeded at everything except my life. — Serge Gainsbourg

I don't like being on my own. I'm happy meeting people and collaborating. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don't feel I have to share everything. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

It's nice that we have all these different films. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

My father loved me and he wanted to work with me and he didn't care what people would say. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I hope one day I will be able to be completely myself. Maybe I'll be wilder. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

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. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts. — Serge Gainsbourg

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. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

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." — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I am incapable of mediocrity. — Serge Gainsbourg

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

The love that we will never make together is the most beautiful, the most violent, the most pure, the most heady. — Serge Gainsbourg

There's always this thing of wanting to be elsewhere. — Charlotte Gainsbourg