When you see yourself on video, you and your friends spending time on vacation, and they take a video, and then you see it, it's really disturbing.

- Marion Cotillard

The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work.

- Marion Cotillard

My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else.

- Marion Cotillard

If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story.

- Marion Cotillard

I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.

- Marion Cotillard

I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.

- Marion Cotillard

As a teenager, I didn't want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me.

- Marion Cotillard

You can't work all your life.

- Marion Cotillard

You have to find the place where you abandon everything of yourself. Then you can let something else happen.

- Marion Cotillard

An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.

- Marion Cotillard

I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.

- Marion Cotillard

It's a paradox to be an actress, living in the city, taking planes all the time, trying to find the right balance in this life, which is not so eco-friendly, and still try to respect the environment.

- Marion Cotillard

I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.

- Marion Cotillard

I've always had a repulsion going in a place where animals are in captivity.

- Marion Cotillard

Respect the place you live, be aware of the impact that you have on things.

- Marion Cotillard

If you search and search and stop searching, then ultimately you'll find what you need. It is the experience of living.

- Marion Cotillard

I would love to go into an animal's dream - like a lion's or a cat's. I'm sure that's pretty awesome.

- Marion Cotillard

My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.

- Marion Cotillard

It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else.

- Marion Cotillard

I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.

- Marion Cotillard