Marion Cotillard Quotes

I don't see myself acting for the rest of my life.

I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.

I don't really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don't know what I want to do yet.

I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.

I still think I'm going to do something else when I grow up.

I did some good stuff over in the U.K., but I wasn't consistently working. For a while there, I was going, 'Do I really want to do this - should I go back to university?'

It will be difficult to finish my career here. I don't know if I am going to end it at Barcelona, although I would like to. I don't know what is going to happen.

In 10 years, I don't really know what I'll be, and I like not having any idea. I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career.

I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.

I don't think I'll be making documentaries my whole life.

I used to think that I wanted to be a hat maker, but I don't think that would have worked out.

When you get to a certain age, you have to make a decision for yourself: if you want to get old in the industry, and you want to play maybe a few parts that come along now and then - or what else in life interests you?

I don't love being an actor, but I'm not qualified to be anything else. I was an auto mechanic and drove a tow truck and tried to go to school to be a paramedic.

I always have moments on set where I think, 'Oh my God, this is my life right now.' And it could've been so different.

I'm so jealous of people who in second grade knew what they wanted to do.

I don't know if I'm going to be a manager forever. I don't know if I'm going to be producing films or television shows.

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't become an actor. If perhaps I'd stayed on at university and become an academic.

Another occupation might have been better.

It took me a long time to find out that I was born to be an actor. It was the last thing on my list, although my list was very small. I didn't know what to do. But kids weren't supposed to know what to do back then; we were all cute and we'd find out what we'd do later in life.

After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.

I don't know if I see myself as an actress for the rest of my life.

Sometimes I think it'd be fun to do a completely different job for a while. You've got one life and you do the same job for the whole of it, and you think - was that a good use of a life?

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.