57+ Charlotte Gainsbourg Quotes On Death, Serge And Touch

Charlotte Gainsbourg is a French actress and singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of English actress Jane Birkin and French singer and songwriter Serge Gainsbourg. She has appeared in many films, including The Science of Sleep, Antichrist, and Melancholia. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Charlotte Gainsbourg on love, life, death.

Top 10 Charlotte Gainsbourg Quotes

1. You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?
2. There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that.
3. In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.
4. I hope one day I will be able to be completely myself. Maybe I'll be wilder.
5. I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.
6. I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.
7. Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.
8. I thought people wouldn't take me seriously if too much acting was involved in the singing. But now I love the idea of mixing everything together.
9. It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt inside.
10. The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.

Charlotte Gainsbourg Short Quotes

• When you fight against your own weaknesses, there's something embarrassing about it.
• I don't have a career plan. I've never done that. Things happen accidentally and I've been lucky.
• Maybe, in the back of my head, I'm thinking I have to do as much as I can. It'll stop.
• I like to play roles different from myself so I can hide behind them.
• The more sincere I could be, the better it would be for the film.
• I hope I'll consider my next part, having learnt from this one.
• I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again.
• There's always this thing of wanting to be elsewhere.
• I don't like being on my own. I'm happy meeting people and collaborating.
• It's nice that we have all these different films.

Charlotte Gainsbourg Quotes About Love

It rarely happens that I get to work again with the same director. I had such a wonderful time on Antichrist with Lars von Trier, that I was going to do whatever he proposed me to do. When he sent me the script of Christmas, I just loved it. I think I love anything he writes. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I'd love to be able to write again, but I'm so repetitive. And it was all about fear. Never positive. Just indulgent about my sadness. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

You don't accept your weaknesses the same way that you love the weaknesses of another artist, because when they make mistakes they don't look like weaknesses. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I love being a beginner. It can be a terrible feeling because you're ashamed of everything you do, but it's so exciting at the same time. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I have ideas of subjects and atmospheres that I love. I either want to go in a tougher, stronger direction or do the opposite: simple ballads. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I would love to be able to do a film. I would love to be able to focus on what excites me in watching actors. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

When you love someone, you don't want them to suffer at all. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

My father loved me and he wanted to work with me and he didn't care what people would say. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

Charlotte Gainsbourg Quotes About Time

Even moving around onstage seemed very artificial. But at the same time you have to make that effort in order to get back to who you are and even accept not moving, if that's who you are. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I was really nervous about people booing, because my mother had gone for a film 20 years earlier and had a terrible time with people booing, whistling, so I knew that in Cannes people can get aggressive. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

Each time I changed, it was as if, on purpose, I didn’t want anyone to know too much about me, which of course now I regret, because I closed myself to everything. But it was my way of dealing with things. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

Charlotte Gainsbourg Famous Quotes And Sayings

I didn't want to change my personality onstage, but I still had to build some kind of ego to be able to go up there. If not, there's no point. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I was very well paid for my age, and I could make choices, decide not to do a film for six months and wait until I'd get the right thing. Which made me quite a coward. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I was very attached to my family when my father died. I was 19. I was about to go live with my father right when he died, so it was very intense. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I was so lucky because I started working very young. And my father was very wealthy and I didn't need to work. I did my films. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

Style for me is a casual way of putting something on. It's not thought out but needs to suit your way of life. Now I like wearing the same sweater over and over again, then taking it off when it's smelly. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don't feel that I've accomplished anything. I feel that it'll be better when I won't care as much, but it's so difficult to let go and accept all the wrong notes. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I can't do things by myself. I need a motivation, and the motivation is always the director's. I find my freedom inside other people's barriers. It's easier for me to find myself inside someone else's tracks. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I think I developed a very closed personality. I didn't really have friends. I changed schools every year. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I didn't go to acting school, so it was great to be able to rehearse for a month or two, to workshop, and be with a director who even gave me acting exercises. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I wish I could just accept that I'm not that good and not be shy about the fact that I'm not that professional. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I think it's a legend that Lars von Trier is such a tough person to work with. I really didn't experience any of that. Of course, he's difficult in the sense that what he asks for is difficult. For my part in Antichrist, I suffered a bit. But it was the part - it wasn't him. He wasn't cruel. On the contrary, he was very kind. You know what you're up for when you read the pitch. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

The problem with me in doing things simply is that I feel I'm not enough. It's all very embarrassing. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

It's difficult for me to write in English as it's not my first language, but French is even worse because of my father's influence and because the comparisons that I - not even other people - would make. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I came to understand that people come and see you because they like you. They don't come to throw things at you. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

It was very liberating to be able to sing in English. It had a different resonance, different images. It was like being a stranger in a foreign land, which was helpful. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don’t have tons of scripts where I don’t know what to choose and I’m trying to calculate. It’s either I read something and I have an impulse to do it, or in meeting someone, I want to work with them, but it’s always been very obvious. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I think, being an actress, you know that you're getting old. I'm 44. I mean, an agent said when I turned 40, "It won't get better." — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I felt that people would criticize everything. I was so scared about playing Paris. I was very much aware that the greatest concerts my father and mother had done were there. I was sure people would be very tough. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I started so old, so the touring world will always be a foreign land for me. I'll never be someone who's "been on the road." — Charlotte Gainsbourg

With a film you go with the script that's already written. And I've never thought of a project, a film that would come from my own desire. I don't think I can do it. I need someone else's desire to be able to do something. With a record, it is completely different, it's a collaboration with another artist, but I'm willing to go into intimate places with no masks on. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I haven't found a comfortable place onstage. I'm sure it doesn't have to be comfortable, but I'm very nervous, so I don't enjoy myself. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don't want to feel that I'm a singer or an actress - being able to say that those are just experiences is what I enjoy. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I was so lucky because I started working very young. And my father was very wealthy and I didn't need to work. I did my films. I was very well paid for my age, and I could make choices, decide not to do a film for six months and wait until I'd get the right thing. Which made me quite a coward, you know. It's so easy to say no to stuff, and then, after a while, it's very hard to go back in. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

Before I started touring, I worked with someone to help me, even physically, because I was so shy. And you can't be shy going onstage. So I had to push myself in a direction that wasn't myself. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

Life Lessons by Charlotte Gainsbourg

1. Charlotte Gainsbourg has shown that it is possible to have a successful career in the entertainment industry while still maintaining a sense of personal integrity and artistic freedom.
2. She has also demonstrated that it is possible to take risks and explore different genres, while still remaining true to your own unique style.
3. Finally, Gainsbourg's work has highlighted the importance of staying true to yourself and following your own creative path, no matter what the industry may say.