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 More Quotes by Charlotte Gainsbourg More Quotes From Charlotte Gainsbourg You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you? Charlotte Gainsbourg degradinggirlthinking I hope one day I will be able to be completely myself. Maybe I'll be wilder. Charlotte Gainsbourg wilderableone-day 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 beginnersfeelingslove-is The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right. Charlotte Gainsbourg turnsdifficultnext There's always this thing of wanting to be elsewhere. Charlotte Gainsbourg elsewhere I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play. Charlotte Gainsbourg gamesplaypeople 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 weaknessartistmistake I like to play roles different from myself so I can hide behind them. Charlotte Gainsbourg rolesdifferentplay 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 sadnessablewriting 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 shywishfacts 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 intensemy-familyfather I think I developed a very closed personality. I didn't really have friends. I changed schools every year. Charlotte Gainsbourg yearsschoolthinking The problem with me in doing things simply is that I feel I'm not enough. It's all very embarrassing. Charlotte Gainsbourg embarrassingproblemenough My father loved me and he wanted to work with me and he didn't care what people would say. Charlotte Gainsbourg carefatherpeople Maybe, in the back of my head, I'm thinking I have to do as much as I can. It'll stop. Charlotte Gainsbourg i-canthinking Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that. Charlotte Gainsbourg embarrassedknowsfeelings 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 parismotherfather When you fight against your own weaknesses, there's something embarrassing about it. Charlotte Gainsbourg embarrassingweaknessfighting 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 regretpurposeway 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 motherpeopleyears
