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" 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. "

Charlotte Rampling

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" 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. "

Charlotte Rampling

" 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. "

Charlotte Rampling

" 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. "

Charlotte Rampling

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

Charlotte Rampling

" 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. "

Charlotte Rampling

" 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. "

Charlotte Rampling

" 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. "

Charlotte Rampling

" 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. "

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" 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. "

Charlotte Rampling

" 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. "

Charlotte Rampling

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

Charlotte Rampling

" 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. "

Charlotte Rampling

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

Charlotte Rampling

" 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. "

Charlotte Rampling

" 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. "

Charlotte Rampling

" You cannot watch yourself dispassionately. "

Charlotte Rampling

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

Charlotte Rampling

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

Charlotte Rampling

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

Charlotte Rampling

" Doing cinema is not about watching yourself. "

Charlotte Rampling

" 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. "

Charlotte Rampling

" 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. "

Charlotte Rampling

" 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. "

Charlotte Rampling

" 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. "

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