Top 40 Audrey Tautou Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I understand that nobody understands me, but I can’t be someone I’m not.”

— Audrey Tautou

2. “Charm is more valuable than beauty. You can resist beauty but you can’t resist charm.”

— Audrey Tautou

3. “I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises.”

— Audrey Tautou

4. “I like photography and writing and travel, so I have a lot of cerebral occupations. I am going to become a sailor and do a world tour on my yacht if I don’t get any more work.”

— Audrey Tautou

5. “I don’t want to think my life as a career.”

— Audrey Tautou

6. “Even if I have only ten more years in front of me, it’s such an intensive life. I have the feeling that I have already lived three lives in three years.”

— Audrey Tautou

7. “What we wear is the shell of who we are.”

— Audrey Tautou

8. “I’m not inspired by any career because I don’t have any expectations.”

— Audrey Tautou

9. “It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I’m not someone who likes to be in the limelight.”

— Audrey Tautou

10. “In France we have a law which doesn’t allow the press to publish a photo that you didn’t approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.”

— Audrey Tautou

11. “After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don’t know how you’re going to be in six months, you don’t know what you’re going to want, what you’re going to need.”

— Audrey Tautou

12. “It was new to play a woman who plays with her sincerity, and who is a seductress, a manipulator and a liar! I was able to compose a character as opposed to being very natural, so it was very interesting for me. It was great to realise that I could be this kind of real woman!”

— Audrey Tautou

13. “It’s so easy and comfortable to lie to yourself. Success is to become who you are. I think Hollywood thinks in a totally different way. But I think that as a human being, and not only an actress, that’s really how you lead a successful life.”

— Audrey Tautou

14. “I’m not imagining me being the James Bond girl, because anyway I don’t have the good maturation.”

— Audrey Tautou

15. “I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.”

— Audrey Tautou

16. “I really like to discover a new culture, a new country, a new rhythm of living. I really, really like that. I think that’s the most enriching thing, for my nature, because I like the psychology of people.”

— Audrey Tautou

17. “I don’t want to think my life as a career. I’m interested in my work only because of the meaning I can make.”

— Audrey Tautou

18. “When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.”

— Audrey Tautou

19. “I’ve never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I’ve never had a desire to work there.”

— Audrey Tautou

20. “I like movies that have strong personalities, and Michel Gondry is so creative that his films are always something special to watch.”

— Audrey Tautou

21. “I like the light that comes off metal shutters at siesta time in the summer, having a break from driving in the shops at motorway services, the odour of petrol at petrol stations, rolling down little slopes. I hate it when you tread in a puddle and the water soaks your socks.”

— Audrey Tautou

22. “I’m not sure that it’s easy to find very interesting female characters in Hollywood movies.”

— Audrey Tautou

23. “I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.”

— Audrey Tautou

24. “I love the fact that there’s an evolution in your understanding and the difference between the first time you play the role and last time you play the role – there’s an incredible arc and that’s wonderful.”

— Audrey Tautou

25. “I believe in God, but I am not sure to trust Him so much.”

— Audrey Tautou

26. “What I like about theatre is the responsibility you have with your character.”

— Audrey Tautou

27. “I think that if you do an American movie it’s important to earn some money, but in a stupid way, to be respected.”

— Audrey Tautou

28. “I like actors who are themselves. I know in America you like actors who change their nose or wear a lot of wigs, and they like to take pretty girls and make them super ugly.”

— Audrey Tautou

29. “I’ve received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.”

— Audrey Tautou

30. “I can be maternal with my friends.”

— Audrey Tautou

31. “I’m not ready to do any compromises for my work.”

— Audrey Tautou

32. “A certain type of critic doesn’t really want French movies to be visual. They think movies started from books and they forgot this part of moviemaking, like Chaplin and Buster Keaton, which I didn’t forget.”

— Audrey Tautou

33. “You have to have the essential pleasure of making a movie. It’s such a huge factor and adventure for a director because you really are the leader and the captain.”

— Audrey Tautou

34. “When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it’s like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it.”

— Audrey Tautou

35. “I think that when you create something or at least try to create something, you slither between excitement and pleasure and you understand this huge emotional frustration. You did one feat, then you go back one.”

— Audrey Tautou

36. “I’m very interested in people, in general.”

— Audrey Tautou

37. “I’ve never sent a Tweet. I think I have an account but I don’t know who runs it. I’ve never done one in my life.”

— Audrey Tautou

38. “I show through my movies that I can do something else. But I always play strong-minded characters. I think it’s maybe because I’m like that. I love being by myself.”

— Audrey Tautou

39. “People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it’s great.”

— Audrey Tautou

40. “It’s difficult to feel that people are looking at you in the street. I don’t like the fuss.”

— Audrey Tautou

41. “Usually, I read the script very often. I think that everything is hiding in the script.”

— Audrey Tautou