Quotes by Charlotte Rampling

About Charlotte Rampling:

Tessa Charlotte Rampling is an English actress. In a career spanning 50 years, she has appeared in English language, French and Italian cinema. A four-time Cesar Award nominee for her work in the French films On ne meurt que deux fois (1985), Under the Sand (2000), Swimming Pool (2003) and Lemming (2005), she received an Honorary César in 2001, and France's Legion of Honour in 2002. She was married for 20 years to the composer Jean Michel Jarre.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

You decide to give your trust over to somebody. And if you don't decide to, then for me, it's really not worth going into collective enterprises; you should just work alone.

Charlotte Rampling

I think what we do best, in the artistic world, are the things where we're handicapped.

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.

Charlotte Rampling

Fashion is not trivial. It's a huge industry and a big part of our lives. Fashion is about us - how we look and present ourselves, how we can change ourselves, and our perceptions. You can dress up to be quite glorious creatures - it's all a very imp...

Charlotte Rampling

I'd had a French education for three years, my father being in the army. From 9 to 12, I went to French school. I've been sort of part of the culture, part of the geography, since I was quite young - the imprint was there.

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

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

I've played the wicked mothers; I've played the serial-killer-type mothers now. They have to have an edge on them. They can't just be everyday moms, because I never thought of myself as an everyday person in cinema - I'm an everyday person in real li...

Charlotte Rampling

I could have carried on in comedy. But my life was dark.

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.

Charlotte Rampling

The '60s in London obviously brought about the explosion of music, the 'Beatles' especially, and then the 'Rolling Stones' and other forms of music, and then fashion and photography and films - kitchen-sink dramas we called them at that time, which w...

Charlotte Rampling

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

My mother's incredible diaries, which she'd written from when she was 21, and even before that. She fell in love with my father when she was 12.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I did that film just so I could kiss Robert Redford.

Charlotte Rampling

Author Bio

  • NameCharlotte Rampling
  • DescriptionBritish actress
  • AliasesTessa Charlotte Rampling
  • BornFebruary 5, 1946
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor; Model
  • AwardsKnight Of The Legion Of Honour; Officer Of The Order Of The British Empire