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All Quotes by author - Charlotte Rampling

" A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin. "

" A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all. "

" Doing cinema is not about watching yourself. "

" European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films. "

" Ever since I was a small child, I've had this feeling - it's in my nature, and so it's not even pretentious - that if everyone's going one way, I will go the other, just by some kind of spirit of defiance. "

" French women have been made beautiful by the French people - they're very aware of their bodies, the way they move and speak, they're very confident of their sexuality. French society's made them like that. "

" Go out there and try on everything - short skirts, long skirts, mid length, little jackets, men's clothing - and really look at yourself; really walk around in the clothes. Don't just take someone else's advice. You must feel you in these clothes and feel what it's like to live in them. "

" I am fascinated by the whole process of what it's like to be alive, whether it's unbelievably uncomfortable and horrible or whether it's quite nice. "

" I felt very special in Paris, more special than I felt in London. I love London for different reasons. I've always been close to London, being English. But somehow, there's something special about living as an Englishwoman in Paris. "

" If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words. "

" If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life into your painting. "

" I know I have great inner strength; I always have. I can blank things out, cut people out, and I know that I can go and live in a cave on my own if necessary. "

" I must explore desert ground and see what can grow. But there are limits. I know in my heart what I would never do. "

" I remember my father saying to me once, 'I finally know how to describe you, Charlotte. You're prickly.' And he was right - prickly is a very good description. If I had to be an animal, I'd probably be a porcupine. "

" I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves. "

" I think the happiest time of my life was when I was in my late teens. I was a little bit of an it-girl. Making myself seen. And it was a wonderful time to be young. "

" It's sort of fun. If someone's eyeballing you, it makes you feel good. "

" My style very much leans towards the masculine, but I think I am feminine in it - I like the feminine body in masculine shapes. The androgynous look suits me. "

" One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either. "

" Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with. "

" The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement. "

" To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve. "

" Training is fabulous because it gives you a basis, a strong structure, so that when you're unbelievably nervous and you think that you can't get a word out, you will get the word out. "

" Usually, watching yourself is pretty awful. People think we all love watching our own films. We don't. We cringe away from it. "

" You can never really judge your work because once it's done, it's done. "

" You cannot watch yourself dispassionately. "

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