If you search and search and stop searching, then ultimately you'll find what you need. It is the experience of living.

I'm affected by the characters I play, and sometimes they're hard to live with.

Awards season is not something that I think about. What I enjoy a lot is knowing that people go and see the movie and they love the movie.

You don't sleep anymore, but at the same time, you have this strength that comes from this life that has just arrived. It's a big cliche how your priorities change, but every parent knows that sometimes there's a thunderstorm, and you look at his eyes, and everything is all right. It is a revolution of everything you feel.

What I do is doing movies and sharing movies.

I was very surprised that they would ask a foreign actress to be Lady Macbeth, but I felt it was an opportunity that I couldn't miss. Having the opportunity to play Shakespeare in English - that wouldn't come twice.

The first time I saw 'Macbeth' was not the entire play. It was at acting school, and this student was working on Lady Macbeth's soliloquy. I felt something very special, and I knew then that I would one day experience Lady Macbeth, but I always thought it would be on stage and in French.

I don't stick to special techniques, conscious techniques.

What I like in this job is you can travel to many places, many imaginations.

I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13.

Campaigning and acting aren't compatible. That's why Audrey Hepburn gave up acting. That's why Angelina Jolie will give up. I'm not ready to stop yet.

If you give me a bass guitar and you ask me to improvise something, or even be with some musicians and follow them, I wouldn't be able to do it. And I want to change that.

When you start a scene, and you don't really know where you're going to go, that's a roller-coaster.

I always want to abandon myself to my characters, and I never knew if I was actually abandoning myself to Lady Macbeth. I was scared to enter the darkness. Almost every day, I would go back home and be like, 'Oh my God, what am I doing?' I had no idea.

I've worked with people who wanted to be creative every day: it was like a goal to arrive with something very special. Sometimes it's just disturbing, because special is good when it's needed. But when it's not needed, it's confusing, and you go away from the authenticity by a strong desire to be unique and singular.

I wish sometimes that I could be Daniel Day-Lewis and say, 'You know what? If you want me to do this, I'm going to need a year to prepare myself.' But if I do that, they'll say, 'Thank you very much,' and they'll take someone else.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

You can't work all your life.

I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.

It was an amazing adventure, it was my dream to be in an American musical... I really hope you are going to love what you are going to see.

When I was little, there were so many people in my house. Everyone was enjoying themselves, rehearsing, having fun. It was like a playground.

My parents definitely sparked something in me. I'm sure of it. I saw how happy and fulfilled they were, and I knew I wanted the same job.

When you are abandoned by two parents as a baby - wow, that is something to live with.

I think we're lied to about a number of things.

An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.

It's a paradox to be an actress, living in the city, taking planes all the time, trying to find the right balance in this life, which is not so eco-friendly, and still try to respect the environment.

You don't really see yourself doing things, of course, but you feel.

When you see yourself on video, you and your friends spending time on vacation, and they take a video, and then you see it, it's really disturbing.

I have busy nights.

If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story.

I don't have a goal.

I don't think that I'm that sophisticated. Maybe I'm not aware of it, I don't know.

My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.

I didn't like anything about myself - my looks, my personality. I was very, very angry.

I was shy. I was more than shy.

I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.

I'm not a liar.

I'm not the kind of person who can do a lot of things at the same time.

I don't live with my role, I'm a really normal person.

When a script moves me, I find that I immediately understand a character. Of course not completely, but I do understand.

Every story is different, every movie is different, every director is different.

I would love to go into an animal's dream - like a lion's or a cat's. I'm sure that's pretty awesome.

I don't have a favorite process. My favorite process is the right process for the person I am working with. I can fit in any process as long as the director respects who I am and doesn't try to put me in a situation to get something out of me - if I can give it without that situation.

Insecurity is very common among actors. When I started giving interviews and talking to people that I didn't know, it was a nightmare. I've learned how to deal with interviews and insecurity; I've gotten used to it.

As an actress, I always wanted to do movies, and I never dreamt about doing movies in America just because I didn't think it was possible.

There is something strange about me. I don't ever feel at ease in a group of people. I have to fight hard to overcome my fears.

I'm able to tell when I'm in a bad place or super-sad and move on. When you're stuck somewhere, you need to change something to shift the energy.

I couldn't identify with anyone. At school, I was considered very strange. I didn't understand the relationships between people.

Having your picture taken in the street and put in a magazine won't change your life.

It was right after I did Piaf, 'La Vie en Rose'. I started to take singing lessons and finding where I could go.