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" My mother taught me to wash my hair as little as possible, and to rinse it with Coke before a shoot for a sexy, tousled look. "
Lou Doillon
Look
Hair
Mother
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" The French press can be very harsh, and the one thing they can't bear is multi-tasking. They despise it to the highest degree, so from the age of five I've been taught that if I did two things at the same time, it meant I didn't know how to do one. It's an obsession that they have. "
Lou Doillon
Age
Obsession
Two
" The more you're writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because it's at your own scale - other people relate to it much more. "
Lou Doillon
You
Own
More
" With fashion, my mother was an icon, but she never lived it in the sense that she was never obsessed with fashion. When I was a young girl, my sister wasn't doing fashion, so I started fashion thinking, 'I'm going to do something that they haven't done yet.' That was my silly scheme at the time. "
Lou Doillon
Mother
Time
Thinking
" I hate short hair on men - the 'real' man is something I don't know. My dad was always playing with hairbands, making rings, while the women were wearing jeans, white T-shirts and Converse. That was the uniform at home. "
Lou Doillon
Hair
Hate
Home
" I listen to a variety of music. The only common point is strong lyrics; I'm more obsessed with lyrics than music. I need to hear a form of truth, and if it's a hard truth, even better. "
Lou Doillon
Need
Music
Strong
" I like costumes. I am always dressing up - I'm very English like that. "
Lou Doillon
Dressing
Up
Am
" My mother is old-fashioned; she raised us like girls from a 19th-century book. My sisters and I are known for being the most polite girls in France. My mother wanted us to be like royalty: never ever will you be caught being rude, or superficial or being a star or whatever. "
Lou Doillon
Royalty
Rude
Book
" Singing is the rawest thing. Having been naked in films or naked in photo shoots, it's nothing compared to singing. It's absolute nakedness. You are stripped bare! It's very strange. Acting seems much easier, in fact, because you are putting on a costume - whereas here, you are taking everything off. "
Lou Doillon
You
Strange
Acting
" I'm a very compulsive person, so I spend most of my time drawing or writing my diary, patching things up and carving bits of wood - I've carved two of my guitars. "
Lou Doillon
Time
Writing
Person
" As a little girl, I had huge fantasies about music. "
Lou Doillon
About
Had
Huge
" I picked up the guitar very late, in a very pagan way - I didn't know how to play, but I knew I had to. I drew and I had a diary, but it wasn't enough; I needed to express more. As soon as I learned two notes, I started to tell a story, which is why, I guess, my music resembles blues or folk. "
Lou Doillon
Story
Music
Late
" I think I was pretty much hated in France. The French press ignored me. There was a movement when the children of celebrities faced strong animosity. "
Lou Doillon
Children
Strong
Think
" I've always had a strange acting life. I'm the daughter of a director, and a very French, typical director who fell in love with every single one of his actresses. And that's also something that's kind of normal in the acting business, because everything is based on desire, one way or the other. "
Lou Doillon
Love
Acting
Business
" I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music. "
Lou Doillon
Women
Awe
Who
" Home has always been wherever I am. I'm not very attached to walls - or people, for that matter - so I've always loved travelling around. A book in my back pocket, a diary, and a pen is all I need to call any place home. "
Lou Doillon
People
I Am
Loved
" There was this really rock n' roll guy who was very obviously dragged to my concert by his girlfriend. He had tattoos all over, and he was wearing a Metallica T-shirt. He came up to me said it was one of his favorite concerts because I had reached for his heart and dragged it out and put it in front of his face. "
Lou Doillon
Rock
Girlfriend
Me
" I always have lipstick, and use the same lipstick for my cheeks as blush, so that it looks very natural. It's a good trick I learned from my mother. I like NYX or MAC because they have a lot of pigment and they're matte. "
Lou Doillon
Good
Looks
Mother
" 'Blanche' opened a new door for me without really making me more famous. 'Blanche' was a risk, but that is the only thing that excites me in this profession. The knowledge that I am an actress who takes risks lifts my soul. "
Lou Doillon
Me
Knowledge
Soul
" I love acting; I love movie sets and movies, but, at the same time, there's something about the position of women in that world that frightens me a lot. I find it nearly inhuman to be an actress. "
Lou Doillon
Love
World
Movies
" I'm in my father's car at age 9 or 10 crying to Leonard Cohen's 'Famous Blue Raincoat,' thinking that you could write nearly a love letter to a man who betrayed you by having an affair with your wife. I was thinking how wonderful and pure music can be for explaining situations. "
Lou Doillon
Car
Music
Man
" I was such a tomboy. I had absolutely no bosom, and I wore my hair really short - shaved, like a boy. "
Lou Doillon
Really
Tomboy
Short
" My mother always spoke to me in English, so it's technically my maternal language, and it became a kind of private language - I was happy that I could speak in English to my mum and the majority of people wouldn't understand it. "
Lou Doillon
Happy
People
Speak
" There is an image of me in France that is a long stretch from who I really am. I read about this girl who lives in grand hotels and has affairs with American actors - I don't recognise this girl at all. Sometimes it makes me depressed. Sometimes it makes me laugh. Sometimes I think, 'Gosh, that sounds nice, I'd love to be that girl.' "
Lou Doillon
Think
Me
Girl
" If Rihanna stripped it all down morally rather than with her clothes, perhaps we'd get closer to Nina Simone. She's talented, but all we want is to sing the truth. If Britney Spears was to sing closer to her heart, she might have been the new Bobby Gentry or Dolly Parton. "
Lou Doillon
Down
Heart
She
" It took me so long to get to the music, where that was what I wanted to do all my life. It took me so long to realise that it wasn't really movies that I wanted to do, but to be on stage singing. "
Lou Doillon
My Life
Me
Long
" I try to not listen to all the girls I admire musically - like Nina Simone - just so I don't find myself imitating them, even if it's subconsciously. "
Lou Doillon
Admire
Find
Like
" Luckily, I was raised by a kind of gypsy family, which is why I always get along better with people who worked in circuses than with kids of other actors. My mom was so carefree with us in a beautiful way. We were used to sleeping anywhere. "
Lou Doillon
Better
Beautiful
Family
" I always loved singing, but I thought it was like drawing - just something you do in your own little corner to calm yourself down. But when my friend, the French songwriter Etienne Daho, listened to my songs, he was so moved that told me that I had to do a demo, share them with the world. "
Lou Doillon
Yourself
Singing
Friend
" I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write. "
Lou Doillon
Lived
Always
Doing
" As an actress, you're part of what the director is creating, and as a model, you're representing a designer's vision. "
Lou Doillon
Creating
You
Director