Top 40 Vincent Cassel Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The only person standing in your way is you.”

— Vincent Cassel

2. “You can’t escape from what you are.”

— Vincent Cassel

3. “Perfection is not just about control, it is also about letting go.”

— Vincent Cassel

4. “I’m more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don’t know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves.”

— Vincent Cassel

5. “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.”

— Vincent Cassel

6. “I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He’d wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.”

— Vincent Cassel

7. “They say the day you lose your parents, you start to look like them.”

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8. “Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.”

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9. “And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it’s time to enjoy being a star.”

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10. “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.”

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11. “When you see violence in movies in general, it’s very quick and painless, which isn’t what it’s like.”

— Vincent Cassel

12. “People pretend to be nice, people pretend to be smooth, and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance, because the way we’re built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.”

— Vincent Cassel

13. “If the guy behind the camera is not good, the pictures are bad. It’s still you, and it’s the same lines and everything, but it doesn’t work.”

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14. “I really like romantic comedies and light movies and everything but I think – I don’t know where it comes from – but when you’re doing violent movies, you’re closer to reality.”

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15. “I think life is short, and you can’t spend time doing things just to be on set to reassure yourself that people are not going to forget about you.”

— Vincent Cassel

16. “Good guys need to be a little dirty otherwise they’re just boring.”

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17. “I always compare human beings to animals. It’s a nice way to figure out who they are.”

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18. “I love French style from the Thirties and Forties. French movie stars like Jean Gabin and Yves Montand had so much natural, effortless style.”

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19. “I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.”

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20. “I wanted to be an actor to act, and now, being an actor, you have to dress up, you have to be nice, you have to be smart, you have to be sexy, you have to be ready.”

— Vincent Cassel

21. “I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.”

— Vincent Cassel

22. “Women? I’m still working on the subject. I haven’t finished my studies. I would say I’m so happy that they’re around. This is the salt and pepper of life. This is what makes me wake up in the morning – even more than work, really.”

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23. “I don’t really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.”

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24. “I’m a little angry in life.”

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25. “I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn’t accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.”

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26. “To work with somebody you love makes filming faster, more fun.”

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

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28. “My father is best known for his light comedies, and Im best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.”

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29. “I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.”

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30. “The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.”

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31. “I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it’s not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.”

— Vincent Cassel

32. “It’s always interesting to see a director trying different things, and on top of it, doing it right each and almost every time.”

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33. “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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34. “Neither of us are workaholics. I think the key thing is to accept that if you only exist through what you do, then you become what you do, and this is very wrong.”

— Vincent Cassel

35. “If kids really made all the parents better, there wouldn’t be crazy kids in the world.”

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36. “I think I’m actually more vulnerable than people imagine.”

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37. “I’m an actor, that’s what I do every day. Dressing up is part of my job. But whatever you wear you should always be yourself: never go totally with the fashion but use what there is available to be an individual.”

— Vincent Cassel

38. “Coming from Paris, I’d really like to live in Rio. I think it’s gotten better. It’s not as violent. The economy is better. The middle class is rising.”

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39. “There is this idea that its very different from the French point of view to work in America blah, blah, blah. But I think its different from one person to the other, not from one country to the other.”

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40. “When you have a bunch of scripts that you have to read, the less you have, the better it is, because otherwise, everything is already planned and I think that’s a terrible feeling.”

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41. “I really enjoy being an actor!”

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42. “I have learned that acting is not about beauty.”

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43. “When somebody is talking to you about something terrible on set with lines, and you believe what he says, sometimes it gives a strange vibe, because you wonder when that person is talking if he’s talking about something that really happened to him and he’s using the character.”

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44. “I’m producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that’s not me. I’d rather do something else.”

— Vincent Cassel

45. “Cronenberg’s a lot of fun, and that a lot of people don’t know watching his movies. He doesn’t take himself seriously. He’s still reinventing himself.”

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46. “I think American audiences like gangster movies. It’s part of the culture.”

— Vincent Cassel