Gael García Bernal

“Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.”

Charlotte Gainsbourg

“I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time.”

Jake Gyllenhaal

“The truth is most of the films that make a lot of money no one remembers, and I'm not interested in making films that no one remembers.”

Tim Roth

“I have a bad time between jobs because I’m always convinced I’ll never work again. I think it may be an English thing, this fear of unemployment.”

Faye Wong

“Boredom is the most unbearable emotion.”

Hilary Swank

“My most annoying question is `Hilary, are you ever going to play a pretty girl?`”

Romane Bohringer

Monica Bellucci

“An actor works with their soul and their thought.”

Vincent Cassel

“My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.”

Jean Reno

“I grew up watching John Wayne, William Holden, Marlon Brando, while also mentioning French actors like Jean Gabin and Louis Jouvet. I had space, liberty, that's American. And I had [black & white] stories in little streets, with a little music in the background, that's the French.”

Christian Bale

“I have a fear of being boring.”

Johnny Depp

“With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.”

Heath Ledger

“If you just be safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.”

Tom Waits

“Apparently the highest compliment our culture grants artists nowadays is to be in an ad - ideally naked and purring on the hood of a new car. I have adamantly and repeatedly refused this dubious honor.”

Jude Law

“When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really.”

Jeff Bridges

“When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another.”

Ludivine Sagnier

“The French cinema is in crisis. They're trying to make movies that are just like those from Hollywood, and they're aiming for mainstream audiences.”

Natalie Portman

“I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.”

Steve Buscemi

“I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.”

John Malkovich

“I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.”

River Phoenix

“Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.”

Sean Penn

“It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.”

Robert Downey Jr.

“I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.”

Woody Harrelson

“I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting.”

Adrien Brody

“When you're the one character that changes dramatically in the movie ... it better be a change for the better.”

Shannyn Sossamon

“I'm a film doll. But I'm enjoying it. So I'm gonna keep doing it.”

Marion Cotillard

“I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings, and my first teacher was my mother and then I worked with my father, who helped me to find in myself all those emotions and how to play with the emotions.”