Actor Quotes

I'm a little angry in life.

I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.

I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.

I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.

I think I'm actually more vulnerable than people imagine.

I really enjoy being an actor!

I ran away from three different boarding schools before joining a circus school, and eventually I became an actor. The only thing I learned at boarding school was never to send my child to one.

I love French style from the Thirties and Forties. French movie stars like Jean Gabin and Yves Montand had so much natural, effortless style.

I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'

I feel like the so-called bad guys are never totally bad. I guess it's the closest thing I can do to reality: people act nice but nobody really is nice. We all have to balance that with something dark.

I don't think France is a racist country, I really don't, but we do still have many problems with our immigrant past, and there's a shame that goes with that, that works both ways, in the host and in the post-immigrant generation.

I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.

I didn't have many girlfriends in my youth. I was an active young man, jumping from one girl to the next, but never with anyone for more than three or four months.

I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.

I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.

I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.

Cronenberg's a lot of fun, and that a lot of people don't know watching his movies. He doesn't take himself seriously. He's still reinventing himself.

Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.

And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.

You just go in and try to do the best job you can everyday.

When your child is sick, you have tunnel vision.

Well, I think that people are smart enough to understand the difference between a movie and real life.

We do have a problem in this country. You can either make a movie and ignore that, or you can acknowledge it and say, this is the water that we're living in. You know this - the movie lives in this - it's centered around this particular problem, and I chose to acknowledge it.

My Mom and Dad did it pretty good, so I know it can work. The foremost thing I would say about working with Robin and Sean is that they were devoted to this project and devoted to their characters. You can't ask for any more from talented actors like that.

My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries. She's a candidate for - and must have - heart replacement surgery in order to have a long life.

I like to give my actors a lot of room.

You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.