| Eva Green Quotes |
- "It's a way to exteriorize all my shit. To scream and cry and laugh on-screen, it's almost like black magic. You can do anything. I'm a dreamer, so that's a good job for me.
- "Onstage is the only place I can fully express myself. It's magic."
- "I wanted to become an actress. I want to experience all those lives."
- "For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins. Even when I'm not working, I'm always living in my own world, imagining characters."
- "I'm very reserved in real life, but when Bertolucci asks you to do a movie, you do it. Nudity is just another costume. Perverts might think otherwise."
- "I don't understand why you can't see naked people on screen but we can see a baby being killed. It's quite strange."
- "I hope after Kingdom Of Heaven, I'll have more opportunities and more choices. I hope to get more work. But I'm very picky. I take my time and I just want to enjoy what I'm doing. I turned down a lot of stuff, but we'll see what happens. I had more propositions after The Dreamers to play some femme fatales, but I try to avoid that."
- "If there's a wonderful script in France, I'll definitely pursue my career there. It all depends on the role and the director. I don't want to be a Hollywood star. I just want to do my job and enjoy it. My aim is to find my true identity and to remain true to myself."
- "Yes, I am a dreamer. I live in another planet."
- "I'm just an actress. I want to keep the mystery. I mean, I know today that we have to talk about our private lives, and if you want to see me on the toilet, it's the same thing as talking. I don't know, I think that it's killing all of the mystery. The actresses in the '30s and '40s didn't talk about their private lives, and I think that it's much better if you keep the magic."
- "In life I can keep a certain distance from people. I'm rather reserved, and people might think that I'm very haughty and impassive. But it's just a mask of protection."
- "I've been terribly spoiled at the beginning of my career. Even if, at a certain point, it's a poisoned gift. Because, then, how can I not become picky?"
- "I'm not part of my era. I think people are very modern, they dress badly, there is no grace anymore. We have lost the dream."
- "I'd rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don't know what's coming up for me, my ambition is not to be typecast. So I'm working on my English accent, as well as my American one. I don't want to be like 'Okay, I'm French, and I want to succeed in Hollywood!' Juliette Binoche has set a good example of what I want to do, because she works all over the world, and that's what I want to do as well."
- "Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax."
- "There are a lot of people who want to be famous, singers, actors, nowadays and, you know, it's like a roller-coaster. And when you are very sensitive - I'm very sensitive - you have to be very strong, you know, you have to just not pay attention to the people who hate you, you know?"
- "I don't have a problem with someone having plastic surgery, but I think it's crazy for everyone to have the same body."
- "I'll need my whole lifetime to polish my craft."
- "My work method is very cerebral. I like to know everything about the character I'm going to play. I try to get in contact with her conscience, with the way she is and how she behaves, then I add some of my own life experience."
- "I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders."
- "My mother thinks acting is a cruel profession. And for years, I wouldn't even acknowledge to myself that I wanted to be an actress. I was afraid of measuring up."
- "People who think Bond is sexist don't have a sense of humor. Most of the girls are strong. They behave like men, almost. In this movie Vesper and Bond are equals. Vesper is funny, sharp, and sassy, but ambiguous."
- "Daniel plays Bond as a gentleman. But he's also trashy and sexy and scary. And that's an attractive combination. Previous Bonds were cerebral, Craig is physical."
- "God, I am not like a model or anything. You know, I'm very simple. I look, like, 12. I'm not making a lot of effort actually. I'm always wearing jeans and feeling comfortable."
- [on working with Edward Norton] "It was extremely difficult, I had to pretend that this was my brother, and I thought, 'How can I do this? I can't. I can't.' I was so stressed out. I don't know how to translate that into English, but I was a bit disturbed because when he did this scene, he reminded me of someone I knew who was dying. Edward has the sensitivity of a child and is able to do anything - anything. He's very rare as an actor. It was like a dream."
- "From my father I inherited a certain distant, cold touch, but only at a first view. I'm as cerebral as him. I don't like to talk about myself, it's very hard for me to describe myself. From my mother, I think I inherited her sensibility, her protective halo, her capacity of being very maternal with people."
- "At drama school I always picked the really evil roles. It's great you deal with your everyday emotions."
- [about Vesper Lynd] "She's the first Bond girl. She's the root of all the Bond girls, and she is quite complex and she's the one that gets Bond's heart, which is quite unusual. You will see a very human side of Bond in this movie."
- [about Vesper Lynd] "She's an enigma. She's very mysterious. You can't really see through her. She's also the first Bond girl ever written by Ian Fleming, and she's quite different. She doesn't really play on her sexuality. She's very sensual, but they have this relationship which is verbal, they are like boxing partners. It's quite an unusual relationship."
- [about Vesper Lynd] "A lot of Bond girls are sexy and unreal, but Vesper is more realistic and more human. I had a chance to read the script before the screen test and I really fell in love with the character."
- [about Vesper Lynd] "She's the only woman that Bond falls in love with, and she shapes him and she's going to have a great impact on his life. He's going to become the Bond that we know, and that makes it interesting. In this movie, I think he maybe will be more human, you will see his flaws, and he's a bit more rugged, and Daniel Craig looks a bit rugged."
- [about Casino Royale script] "I think this is one of the best scripts I've read for a long time, and it's not like a cliché movie or anything like that. It's a very deep, profound movie with a lot of twists and turns. The love story moved me, and it's not like an action movie. That's why I'm doing this movie, and this character is a gift for an actor, so you can't say no. You'd be quite a moron."
- [on preparing to play Vesper Lynd] "I'm quite cerebral, so I'm imagining each scene and working on the character. I haven't read the novel and I'm reading it at the moment. I'm a bad student, but I'm about to read it. In a way, I just imagined this movie as an old-fashioned movie in a very good way, because [Vesper] is quite sassy and sharp, and the relationship is kind of unusual and very funny, but you'll just have to wait and see. I'm working at the moment."
- [about her character Sybilla] "The character of Sibylla is quite nebulous, we don't know too much about her. She was madly in love with Guy de Lusignan, the baddie in the movie, and everyone was warning her not to marry him because he was such a moron. Then she put the crown on his head, and there were disastrous consequences for the kingdom. We also know that she had a child who died at 8 years old, though we don't know how. But I didn't build my character from the history, it was more on the script."
- [how did she get the role of Sybilla] "It was a long, tough process - five or six auditions. The first was in London with a casting director and I had to learn two monologues of the character. Then I met with Ridley [Scott] in his office and I was completely paralysed because of who he was. I didn't want to sound too French and didn't know what he was looking for. Then there was no news, no news, no news. Then another screen test at Pinewood Studios where all the costumes and the actors were. Then another screen test to convince them that I could be more regal and like a queen."
- [about her character Isabelle in The Dreamers] "At first she’s showing off how controlled and confident she is. By the end she’s more like herself. I think she takes refuge behind all those characters because… it’s very difficult to explain the character, because I feel very close to her in some ways. In life I can keep a certain distance from people I’m rather reserved, and people might think that I’m very haughty and impassive, cold. But it’s just a mask of protection. And when she makes love with Matthew, she becomes an adult, in some way. She lets reality come into her… Theo and Isabelle, they don’t want to face the fact that they have to free themselves from each other – and they know that their ambiguous relationship cannot last forever and by remaining in childhood, they’re only “playing games”, they’re still protected."
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Movie/TV title: Casino Royale
Movie/TV title: The Golden Compass
Movie/TV title: Kingdom of Heaven
Movie/TV title: The Dreamers