Marion Cotillard Quotes

I don't have a normal life.

I shouldn't say I'm looking forward to leading a normal life, because I don't know what normal is.

All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn't.

People say I'm controversial. But I think I lead a very balanced and normal life.

Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.

I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.

I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.

I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.

I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

My parents were intelligent and encouraging, but at the same time, they were displeased at me becoming a wandering troubadour and wire walker.

My family was all police and hard hats at the refineries; they didn't know what to think about me. So I became a closet writer.

I changed the course of my life, from the rigidity of mathematics and the corporate rhythm to a more bohemian world.

I am enormously uncool. I've made a cottage industry of being uncool. And I'm fine with that.

I think I'll always draw from being a person that doesn't know how to have a normal life, whatever a normal life is.

Things were sort of Bohemian in Montmartre - one lived, one painted, one was a painter - all that doesn't mean anything, fundamentally.

Left to my own devices I'd get up at midday every day of my life.

I had a dream of music and art and the big city in which I would get lost, where no one would know me and I wouldn't know anyone, where I would work at some ordinary job, and if one day I got up in the morning and decided I wasn't going to go to work anymore, no one would ask questions.

What I do doesn't sit well in the world of hipsterville. I don't have a cool card, but I also don't have thin skin.

I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium.

People say to me, 'Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange.'

Parents talk a lot about how much strength and dedication it takes to raise a child. I think it also takes a lot of strength and dedication to carve out a life that doesn't seem normal to anyone else.

I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a business, in pictures. I am not obliged to make one picture after the other in order to live.

I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.

I don't know if I thrive in normal life.

I think it's much richer and much more fun to be an artist than to be anything else. I can't think of a better life than acting.