Sophie Marceau Quotations

I need the seasons to live to the rhythm of rain and sun.

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

What I am interested in is the present time

Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you.

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.

I felt sometimes too responsible as an actor because people promote violence or weird things that I don't want to be part of.

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.

Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language

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.

I think I'm a tough person, but for sure, I would talk under torture.

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

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.

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

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

Mel Gibson would not be a good James Bond

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

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

Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.

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

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

All I will say is that I'm playing a lot of different roles that, to be honest, are more interesting and demanding than any I've played before.

Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Sometimes you choose the wrong actor, he could be the best actor ever, but he's not cast in the right part then it doesn't work.

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.

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

Sometimes you choose the wrong actor, he could be the best actor ever, but hes not cast in the right part then it doesnt work.

Relationships are difficult. It's life. You love life, so you fight. You fight because you love. Otherwise, you wouldn't fight. You work. You don't want to die. Why life is a fight, I don't know, but gosh! It is.

You wouldnt kill me. Youd miss me!

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.

There's no point living, if you can't feel alive.