Marion Cotillard Quotes

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

My writing was liberated once I abandoned acting.

If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.

Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.

I don't think I'm a brilliant writer, but I'm a good writer, and it's just so empowering to get involved.

Acting is what I do with who I am.

It took me at least all my 20s and some of my 30s to get the confidence to realise I could just write about what I wanted to write about without having to pass a test or look super clever.

Acting, I get to explore other people and other characters; with music, I get to express and explore myself.

I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.

I'm not really interested in myself in my writing. I can't see myself in the songs, even though I know different parts of me are there.

A lot of my songs are about things that concern me personally, not a heightened version of myself or any of the characters that I play.

I started writing for myself because I know how to write for myself. I know how to show what I can do.

I feel like I never get to play any version of myself or get to be a normal person.

There's times when I'm really shy, so these roles that I get to play, they're how I would love to really be. And that's why I love doing stand-up, because it gives me the freedom to say what I really want to say. I think that's why it's my favorite thing to do.

My mom has raised me saying, "Always be yourself." So to be able to play a character that verifies just that, is such a thrill and adventure for me.

I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.

The first audience that you have when writing a book is you.

As a kid, I was always very shy growing up - I wasn't very good at articulating my thoughts or my feelings. Now that I'm older, I found acting to do that. So it's been an amazing way to sort of express who I am.

I do want to work on writing, because writing's a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better. To know yourself better. And it's intimidating as hell.

When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself short on and what I have to struggle to achieve in order that the work might live.

You think you have some stable talent that will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across to the audience once, you can't imagine that moment when it suddenly will. Gradually, gradually you gain that confidence.

As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.

Acting is a form of confession.

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.