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- At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.
- Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that.
- 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.
- I can be very inhibited and complex.
- I can see what my mother gave me, very English things, like Morecambe and Wise. But with the English I'm not really comfortable.
- I couldn't do anything else, I enjoy it so much. But I find it tough.
- I didn't know where to begin-I was very frustrated, not knowing how to start. At the same time it was very enjoyable to be able to wear my own clothes.
- I don't feel I have to share everything.
- I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.
- I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time.
- I have a very easy life, but you depend on other people's will, and sooner or later you get doubts about yourself.
- I have my life to lead. If nothing happens in the next few years, I'll just let go.
- I hope I'll consider my next part, having learnt from this one.
- I imagine it's very hard for parents to let go of their child like that, but they made me feel that I could decide.
- I know that Yvan has no problems talking about our son. But I have problems, because I have lived it with my parents.
- I so loved the script, but I was scared at what people would think-I thought maybe it would be taken seriously.
- I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.
- I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play.
- I used to hate being recognised.
- I was putting all those pressures on myself.
- I was very shy as a teenager, so I felt uncomfortable as soon as someone recognised me in the street.
- I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.
- I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again.
- I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.
- I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest.
- I'm getting more and more desperate. I can't just open the doors and let people in.
- I'm sure that my mother and father must have read the script for Paroles et Musique, but we never talked about it.
- If I take a step back, I see that it's a weird job to be doing. But I've been into it since I was 12 and I love it.
- In 10 years I've seen all the different governments, and they've never done anything.
- In Franc, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.
- 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.
- It wasn't a question of being jealous of their parts, it was just a question of what was my place in that comedy.
- It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt inside.
- It's nice that we have all these different films.
- Journalists wanted to get information about how I was raised, what my father was like, our private life. I hated it.
- 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.
- My parents, they're so popular - people are very sweet with the whole family. It's quite special.
- My voice was shaky, and I didn't have any breath. We tried all sorts of things to make me a little freer. Drinking: that didn't work. Hiding behind a sheet: that worked.
- No one pushed me to do a film, and I can't remember either my mother or my father saying what they thought about scripts.
- Oh, the interviews. I started doing them when I was 13 or 14. I found it terrible.
- On one film I was not very self-confident. I was asking everyone if they had seen the rushes, wanting to get advice from everyone. I went into a panic.
- The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.
- The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.
- The director was doing the acting and the directing with such energy at the same time that it was a pleasure to watch.
- The more sincere I could be, the better it would be for the film.
- The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.
- There was a scene where we were making love, but in a very trashy way, and it was supposed to be funny but I didn't feel it was funny.
- There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that.
- Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.
- When My Wife is an Actress came out in France, people said it doesn't look like a French film, that it has more of a British tone to it, which I find very flattering.
- When you love someone, you don't want them to suffer at all.
- You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.
- 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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