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Anne Parillaud
French
Actress
About the author
It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It's a miracle. I don't understand it. I live it very intensely.
Anne Parillaud,
French
Actress
#Love
#Wonder
I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.
Anne Parillaud,
French
Actress
#Feeling
#Rules
#Laws
#Emotion
I adore people who ask questions and who cause others to share in their search.
Anne Parillaud,
French
Actress
#People
#Questions
#Cause
Actors should be timeless and impersonal.
Anne Parillaud,
French
Actress
#Actors
I had never even thought I'd be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It's the same career.
Anne Parillaud,
French
Actress
#Career
#Thought
#Act
#Motivation
Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.
Anne Parillaud,
French
Actress
#Language
#Violence
#Body
#Voice
To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface?
Anne Parillaud,
French
Actress
#Purpose
On the surface I look fragile and insecure; you have to know me very well.
Anne Parillaud,
French
Actress
Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself.
Anne Parillaud,
French
Actress
#Love
#Lie