'Particularly' is particularly difficult because the 'L' and the 'R' are totally different, like totally different letters. I would spend hours in front of the mirror with my dialect coach to observe my tongue. You don't think, when you speak, about all the things that happen in your jaw and your mouth, how everything reacts, so you have to watch all those things and realise we have a totally different use of our tongue and jaws.

Marion Cotillard

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I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.

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use feelings thinking

As a teenager, I didn’t want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me.

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teenager different people

I think that when you don't see the boundaries, you cross them without even knowing they exist in the first place.

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knowing firsts thinking

That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.

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paris mystery world

I was raised with the idea of beauty in a different way. To me, it is something that really comes out of you and surrounds you.

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different way ideas

You cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness.

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deals madness good-things

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

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hate understanding simple

I think you're where you have to be and I'm not a person who wants to control things too much because I love surprises.

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too-much want thinking

I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.

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emotion stories thinking

I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.

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want friendship thinking

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

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conspiracy views share

You have to invest if you want to restore balance to the world.

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balance want world

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

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wake-up dream sleep

I'm not a real musician. 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. I want to be able to be in a group and take my guitar and play with them, without someone showing me, "Okay, you're going to do this and that," because music has always been a big part of my life.

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guitar real play

My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else.

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want-something parent long

I'll never approach a part in the same way again. Piaf taught me so much. In terms of my work, I think I'll enjoy it even more than before, because now I know that characters truly exist in their own right. I'll have a way to bring them even more intensely to life.

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character way thinking

Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered.

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saws moon men

We lost this animal instinct that we used to have. We use a very low percentage of our instinct.

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instinct use animal

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

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parent baby two

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

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angry personality looks