Sophie Marceau Quotes (33 Quotes)


    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.

    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.

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

    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.

    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.


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




    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.

    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.

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

    On love rival Isabelle Adjani - 'I'm eight years younger, 3 inches taller and I've got boobs

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

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

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

    It is personal, very honest, intimate, I would say, but sometimes the story, the anecdote, can be more or less mine - or not mine.

    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.

    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.


    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.

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

    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.

    She's a woman who has to sell her baby to get some money. She comes from a very low social class,

    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.

    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.

    Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language.

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

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

    On Leonardo DiCaprio What is he - eleven thirteen I could play his nanny.


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