Audrey Tautou Quotes

I think that if you do an American movie it's important to earn some money, but in a stupid way, to be respected.

I'm very interested in people, in general.

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.

I like actors who are themselves. I know in America you like actors who change their nose or wear a lot of wigs, and they like to take pretty girls and make them super ugly.

I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries.

It was new to play a woman who plays with her sincerity, and who is a seductress, a manipulator and a liar! I was able to compose a character as opposed to being very natural, so it was very interesting for me. It was great to realise that I could be this kind of real woman!

Charm is more valuable than beauty. You can resist beauty, but you can't resist charm.

Even if I have only ten more years in front of me, it's such an intensive life. I have the feeling that I have already lived three lives in three years.

I've never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I've never had a desire to work there.

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

I like to think in camera, but at the last minute the most important thing is that there is something happening between the actors. But good actors can have a lot of scenes going around them but sometimes it sort of helps the performance because it takes their mind off of who they are supposed to be.

I'm not imagining me being the James Bond girl, because anyway I don't have the good maturation.

I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.

People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.

I like photography and writing and travel, so I have a lot of cerebral occupations. I am going to become a sailor and do a world tour on my yacht if I don't get any more work.

It's so easy and comfortable to lie to yourself. Success is to become who you are. I think Hollywood thinks in a totally different way. But I think that as a human being, and not only an actress, that's really how you lead a successful life.

I think that when you create something or at least try to create something, you slither between excitement and pleasure and you understand this huge emotional frustration. You did one feat, then you go back one.

I've never sent a Tweet. I think I have an account but I don't know who runs it. I've never done one in my life.

I'm not sure that it's easy to find very interesting female characters in Hollywood movies.

I don't want to think my life as a career. I'm interested in my work only because of the meaning I can make.

It's difficult to feel that people are looking at you in the street. I don't like the fuss.

I like the light that comes off metal shutters at siesta time in the summer, having a break from driving in the shops at motorway services, the odour of petrol at petrol stations, rolling down little slopes. I hate it when you tread in a puddle and the water soaks your socks.

I love the fact that there's an evolution in your understanding and the difference between the first time you play the role and last time you play the role - there's an incredible arc and that's wonderful.

What I like about theatre is the responsibility you have with your character.

Usually, I read the script very often. I think that everything is hiding in the script.

In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.

I believe in God, but I am not sure to trust Him so much.

I like movies that have strong personalities, and Michel Gondry is so creative that his films are always something special to watch.

I wouldnt mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly dont want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean.

I can be maternal with my friends.

I show through my movies that I can do something else. But I always play strong-minded characters. I think it's maybe because I'm like that. I love being by myself.

I'm not inspired by any career because I don't have any expectations.

I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.

When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it.

When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.

I'm not ready to do any compromises for my work.

I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises.

I don't want to become more famous than what I am. I'm not interested in being in movies that are going to be shown all around the world and get a massive audience, so I'm interested in doing foreign movies as long as it stays an exceptional case and is exotic, but I don't want to go there [Hollywood].

What we wear is the shell of who we are.

There are moments when it's unbelievable how people who work on the hair or on the little bit of skin here, they have no other care or interest since this part of their job is the only thing that needs to look good. So you have to push everybody to the side so that you can have a connection with your actor and give some air to your actor.

I don't want to think my life as a career.

I don't really know Hollywood, and I think that L.A. needs a bit of time to really know the city, because it's such a huge city.

I really like to discover a new culture, a new country, a new rhythm of living. I really, really like that. I think that's the most enriching thing, for my nature, because I like the psychology of people.

I think when you're an adult you start to like the very things that make you different. If you obsess about some defect, you make it obvious to everyone, and suddenly everyone is staring at just that defect. It's always like that. The more you hide something, the more it shows. But when you accept your defect, suddenly no one on earth sees it anymore.

I'm not sure I'm quite ready to have someone be a prospector of jobs for me, because I believe there's some kind of destiny involved with meeting people... some things are just meant to happen.

A certain type of critic doesn't really want French movies to be visual. They think movies started from books and they forgot this part of moviemaking, like Chaplin and Buster Keaton, which I didn't forget.

You have to have the essential pleasure of making a movie. It's such a huge factor and adventure for a director because you really are the leader and the captain.