Top 50 Marion Cotillard Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don’t know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.”

— Marion Cotillard

2. “As an actress I just want to tell beautiful stories.”

— Marion Cotillard

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3. “You cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness.”

— Marion Cotillard

4. “I think that when you don’t see the boundaries, you cross them without even knowing they exist in the first place.”

— Marion Cotillard

5. “That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.”

— Marion Cotillard

6. “Respect the place you live, be aware of the impact that you have on things.”

— Marion Cotillard

7. “I couldn’t live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.”

— Marion Cotillard

8. “For me, what Macbeth is about is people who cannot face their fears and pain and instead of facing them and going beyond, they just run away and they try to cover this with power and violence, but it doesn’t work.”

— Marion Cotillard

9. “I think you’re where you have to be and I’m not a person who wants to control things too much because I love surprises.”

— Marion Cotillard

10. “You have to invest if you want to restore balance to the world.”

— Marion Cotillard

11. “I didn’t like anything about myself – my looks, my personality. I was very, very angry.”

— Marion Cotillard

12. “I never thought that I would have to play an Indian, well half French, but an Indian woman in my life.”

— Marion Cotillard

13. “I don’t think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.”

— Marion Cotillard

14. “As a teenager, I didn’t want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me.”

— Marion Cotillard

15. “I think the Earth and everything around it is connected – the sky and the planets and the stars and everything else we see as a mystery.”

— Marion Cotillard

16. “We lost this animal instinct that we used to have. We use a very low percentage of our instinct.”

— Marion Cotillard

17. “My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it’s not against someone else.”

— Marion Cotillard

18. “The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it’s not. I have a lot of work.”

— Marion Cotillard

19. “I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.”

— Marion Cotillard

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20. “I was born in Paris and raised in the suburbs and then lived in the countryside.”

— Marion Cotillard

21. “What I like in this job is you can travel to many places, many imaginations.”

— Marion Cotillard

22. “I was shy. I was more than shy.”

— Marion Cotillard

23. “An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.”

— Marion Cotillard

24. “I don’t stick to special techniques, conscious techniques.”

— Marion Cotillard

25. “I think what we’ve experienced in the past is that people do like to be challenged.”

— Marion Cotillard

26. “I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.”

— Marion Cotillard

27. “I was raised with the idea of beauty in a different way. To me, it is something that really comes out of you and surrounds you.”

— Marion Cotillard

28. “When you see yourself on video, you and your friends spending time on vacation, and they take a video, and then you see it, it’s really disturbing.”

— Marion Cotillard

29. “I don’t think that I’m that sophisticated. Maybe I’m not aware of it, I don’t know.”

— Marion Cotillard

30. “When I was little, there were so many people in my house. Everyone was enjoying themselves, rehearsing, having fun. It was like a playground.”

— Marion Cotillard

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31. “Every Story is different, Every Movie is different, Every Director is different.”

— Marion Cotillard

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32. “If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story.”

— Marion Cotillard

33. “Im so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldnt have dared to think I would work with one day.”

— Marion Cotillard

34. “I would love to go into an animal’s dream – like a lion’s or a cat’s. I’m sure that’s pretty awesome.”

— Marion Cotillard

35. “I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.”

— Marion Cotillard

36. “When you are abandoned by two parents as a baby – wow, that is something to live with.”

— Marion Cotillard

37. “I’ve always known actors because my parents are actors on stage and so I lived in a very creative environment when I was a kid. All my life.”

— Marion Cotillard

38. “But it’s very technical and you really have to work and work and work to crack it. It’s about using your whole face, jaw and tongue in a totally different way. It was very interesting – I love the English language, which made it easier.”

— Marion Cotillard

39. “It’s pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else.”

— Marion Cotillard

40. “I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13.”

— Marion Cotillard

41. “I’ll never approach a part in the same way again. Piaf taught me so much. In terms of my work, I think I’ll enjoy it even more than before, because now I know that characters truly exist in their own right. I’ll have a way to bring them even more intensely to life.”

— Marion Cotillard

42. “I’m always 100% committed to a character, a story and a director, and with Michael Mann it was 1,000%. I don’t know how to explain this...”

— Marion Cotillard

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43. “I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone – you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.”

— Marion Cotillard

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44. “Usually when I start to work and to prepare the movie, some inspirations, different kind of human beings, it can be someone I know, someone I don’t, a girl, a boy. So usually when I start, quite right away, some inspirations come.”

— Marion Cotillard

45. “I’m a great fan of Michael Mann and when he asked to see me I couldn’t believe it. I was very happy. I met him and I read this beautiful script. I didn’t know anything about Dillinger. I fell in love with the movie and Michael Mann.”

— Marion Cotillard

46. “I’m not a method actor, but I’m affected by the life I share my life with during shooting. It’s always a very strange and special period for me.”

— Marion Cotillard

47. “I’m always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I’m going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job.”

— Marion Cotillard

48. “It cannot be stressful. It just has to be fun. There are many, many things to stress for in this life – not getting ready for a red carpet.”

— Marion Cotillard

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49. “Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered.”

— Marion Cotillard

50. “I love to work this way – I love the time of preparation. If you feed yourself with all the information and you get to understand who the character is then you can really be her.”

— Marion Cotillard