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" I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do. "

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" I feel like the so-called bad guys are never totally bad. I guess it's the closest thing I can do to reality: people act nice but nobody really is nice. We all have to balance that with something dark. "

" When eventually I started to act a bit more, I realised that circus school had taught me something that a lot of actors my age didn't have: physicality. They didn't know how to move. Acting is not all about talking. There is something animalistic about it. "

" To work with somebody you love makes filming faster, more fun. "

" There's only so much you can control in life. "

" I think I'm actually more vulnerable than people imagine. "

" I didn't have many girlfriends in my youth. I was an active young man, jumping from one girl to the next, but never with anyone for more than three or four months. "

" I guess I look strange a bit. Strange but confident. I'm not like a model or anything. I always compare this to wearing a hat. You can wear the strangest hat, but if you think it's cool, then you'll look cool. "

" In Italy, it is difficult to see a film in the original language because the voice actors here are a mafia. "

" My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers. "

" I feel to look for perfection is a very dangerous path. More than that, it's dangerous because it doesn't exist. You can aim for it, but you already know you won't get there because it doesn't exist. Plus, I definitely think the flaws, little cracks, and accidents are a lot more interesting. "

" The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions. "

" What I think I'm perceived as in France is, like, I'm this leading man always doing strange movies because most of the movies I did, like 'Irreversible' or 'Brotherhood of the Wolf' and a bunch of others, and even in France, they always come out as a particular movie, not like the typical French kind of movies that people know most of the time. "

" I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors. "

" People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody. "

" You can't escape from what you are. "

" I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at. "

" I still wear my trousers baggy as I did in my teens. But in a different way. I've loved trainers since my youth - limited edition, vintage, whatever. You could recognise people and judge their character through their trainers. I'm a Nike man. "

" The minute your parents die, you stop fighting them. I realized the more I changed my face for films, the more I looked like him. I always liked to disguise myself because I was trying to run away from his image. But all that is not worth it. "

" I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up. "

" I ran away from three different boarding schools before joining a circus school, and eventually I became an actor. The only thing I learned at boarding school was never to send my child to one. "

" The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet. "

" French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually. "

" I have learned that acting is not about beauty. "

" I'm a little angry in life. "