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" Actually, I started to become an actress because I met someone who was just a friend and I found his life wonderful, I thought, Oh my god, you can travel, you're free, you can do what you want, you're the boss. And then I met an actor and I was in love with him. "
Boss
Travel
Love
" As an actor, it's up to you to show that you can do something else. For me, the interesting actors don't always go where you expect to find them. "
Me
You
Always
" Even in between takes, you emerge yourself. So you don't have a life for six months. "
Months
Yourself
You
" For me, cinema's like a language - everyone has their own form of it. "
Me
Everyone
Cinema
" I don't have any preconceived ideas of myself. I just take things as they come. "
Come
Ideas
Just
" I don't like modernity. I don't have television or the Internet at home. The Internet scares me. I can't drive a car. "
Like
Car
Drive
" I don't really wear makeup every day. I feel like being an actress - we wear a lot of makeup - but when I am not working, I need to let my face breathe and be very comfortable. "
Face
I Am
Makeup
" If I do too many takes, I'm too self-conscious. I think I'm better in first scenes. "
Think
Better
Too
" I find it hard to be joyful on screen because I'm so tense. "
Find
Screen
Joyful
" I found it hard to express myself in the world. I was very shy. I'm still very shy. But also, when I was a child, I could get very... I had this violence... I still get angry. But I don't break things; I'm not hysterical. "
Myself
Child
Angry
" I like a man who can respect a woman. When he's real attentive, I think that is very manly. To respect a woman is divine. "
Real
Woman
Think
" I like to learn things from other cultures. I'm curious. It's exciting to be in an unknown world, in a way. "
Curious
Learn
Unknown
" I love being in the States because there's an emphasis on work. People are enthusiastic. They put heart into things. "
Heart
Work
Things
" I love challenge. I love to be afraid before a film, before acting. I think always I want to experience fear. I've become addicted to this feeling. "
Challenge
Experience
Fear
" I'm not as beautiful as a model. "
Model
Beautiful
" I'm not reading reviews and critics. I don't care. I guess I'm still a little on my own planet. "
Care
Planet
Reading
" In America it's good to show people you are fine, you're healthy, you're sporty, you're happy to do things, to live. And in France it's more like you don't have to show you have success. "
People
Live
Happy
" In America, they are very respectful of your work. People are not judgmental. They like difference - to be different is a force. In France, you have to be like the girl next door. "
Door
Girl
People
" In America, you don't have to be weak, you have to be strong. "
You
Weak
Strong
" I see society as something dangerous, and you have to save yourself from the rules. I think acting is the way I save myself. "
Think
Myself
Society
" I see that people now recognize me in the street. But it doesn't change me in the depth of my being. "
People
Change
Me
" I think that I'm shy and I judge myself. But at the same time, I also have big contradictions. I can be sometimes sure of myself as well. I'm not always fragile and vulnerable. I can feel tough and strong. "
Tough
Time
Think
" It's a misogynistic world. It's because of what we ask of actresses. We ask them to be sensitive, fragile, desirable. And men? We ask them to be strong and virile. "
Fragile
Men
Be Strong
" It's true that French are not very sophisticated in the sense that they don't dress up for dinners. They are not like Americans, where they are always perfect - the girls are not very sporty; they don't take care of themselves as much as Americans, who always have very white teeth and are so fit. "
Perfect
True
Dress
" I've always felt that Americans are very in the moment. There's not so much melancholia and mystery as there is in France. Everything must be understood. Everything must be analyzed. "
Mystery
Moment
Everything
" I was putting forward too much of myself when I was singing. "
Too Much
Singing
Myself
" I would love to take more risks - have pink hair - but it doesn't look right on me. "
Hair
Risks
Me
" Male directors always project their own desire of women - how they want a woman to dress, to do her hair. With a woman director, it's more a projection of herself. "
Woman
Hair
Dress
" Music was my first love, but it was difficult for me. It's something that I really love, but I didn't feel that I was so good at it. I can sing well, but I'm not a great singer. When I sing, I don't feel I'm expressing all the emotions. "
Love
Emotions
Good
" My proudest moment is when I'm part of a good film, when people are touched by it. "
People
Moment
Good
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