Quotes by Sophie Marceau

About Sophie Marceau:

Sophie Marceau is a French actress, director, screenwriter, and author. As a teenager, Marceau achieved popularity with her debut films La Boum (1980) and La Boum 2 (1982), receiving a César Award for Most Promising Actress. She became a film star in Europe with a string of successful films, including L'Étudiante (1988), Pacific Palisades (1990), Fanfan (1993), and Revenge of the Musketeers (1994). Marceau became an international film star with her performances in Braveheart (1995), Firelight (1997), and the 19th James Bond film The World Is Not Enough (1999).
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But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you are always an actress.

Sophie Marceau

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with.

Sophie Marceau

Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people.

Sophie Marceau

Oh, I'm not English, I cannot talk on behalf of an English person. I'm French. I can say about French. They are quite emotional, though, and they talk about their emotions.

Sophie Marceau

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

Sophie Marceau

It is something actresses need to go through and I think they look forward to being naked in a movie. I don't know why, but it is something you need to exhaust from yourself.

Sophie Marceau

You know French means like sophisticated, well educated, so far.

Sophie Marceau

I think it's almost easier to make people cry than to make people laugh.

Sophie Marceau

Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language.

Sophie Marceau

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

Sophie Marceau

So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English.

Sophie Marceau

Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you.

Sophie Marceau

Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.

Sophie Marceau

I need the seasons to live to the rhythm of rain and sun.

Sophie Marceau

I think I'm a tough person, but for sure, I would talk under torture.

Sophie Marceau

All I will say is that I'm playing a lot of different roles that, to be honest, are more interesting and demanding than any I've played before.

Sophie Marceau

I felt sometimes too responsible as an actor because people promote violence or weird things that I don't want to be part of.

Sophie Marceau

You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you.

Sophie Marceau

And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies.

Sophie Marceau

Mel Gibson would not be a good James Bond.

Sophie Marceau

Author Bio

  • NameSophie Marceau
  • DescriptionFrench actress, director, screenwriter, and author
  • BornNovember 17, 1966
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionActor; Film Director; Singer; Screenwriter; Writer