I can't do things by myself. I need a motivation, and the motivation is always the director's. I find my freedom inside other people's barriers. It's easier for me to find myself inside someone else's tracks. 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 degrading girl thinking I hope one day I will be able to be completely myself. Maybe I'll be wilder. Charlotte Gainsbourg wilder able one-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 beginners feelings love-is The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right. Charlotte Gainsbourg turns difficult next 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 games play people 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 weakness artist mistake I like to play roles different from myself so I can hide behind them. Charlotte Gainsbourg roles different play 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 sadness able writing 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 shy wish facts 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 intense my-family father I think I developed a very closed personality. I didn't really have friends. I changed schools every year. Charlotte Gainsbourg years school thinking The problem with me in doing things simply is that I feel I'm not enough. It's all very embarrassing. Charlotte Gainsbourg embarrassing problem enough My father loved me and he wanted to work with me and he didn't care what people would say. Charlotte Gainsbourg care father people 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-can thinking Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that. Charlotte Gainsbourg embarrassed knows feelings 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 paris mother father When you fight against your own weaknesses, there's something embarrassing about it. Charlotte Gainsbourg embarrassing weakness fighting 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 regret purpose way 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 mother people years
