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Charlotte Rampling
French
Actress
About the author
You cannot watch yourself dispassionately.
Charlotte Rampling,
French
Actress
If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words.
Charlotte Rampling,
French
Actress
#Words
#Feeling
Training is fabulous because it gives you a basis, a strong structure, so that when you're unbelievably nervous and you think that you can't get a word out, you will get the word out.
Charlotte Rampling,
French
Actress
#Will
#Word
#Training
You can never really judge your work because once it's done, it's done.
Charlotte Rampling,
French
Actress
#Work
To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve.
Charlotte Rampling,
French
Actress
The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.
Charlotte Rampling,
French
Actress
#Language
#Body
Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.
Charlotte Rampling,
French
Actress
#Life
One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either.
Charlotte Rampling,
French
Actress
#Eye
#Pretty
#Women
I did that film just so I could kiss Robert Redford.
Charlotte Rampling,
French
Actress
#Film
#Kiss
I am fascinated by the whole process of what it's like to be alive, whether it's unbelievably uncomfortable and horrible or whether it's quite nice.
Charlotte Rampling,
French
Actress
French women have been made beautiful by the French people - they're very aware of their bodies, the way they move and speak, they're very confident of their sexuality. French society's made them like that.
Charlotte Rampling,
French
Actress
#People
#Society
#Women
#Sexuality
European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films.
Charlotte Rampling,
French
Actress
#Freedom
#American
#Sensations
Doing cinema is not about watching yourself.
Charlotte Rampling,
French
Actress
#Cinema
A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all.
Charlotte Rampling,
French
Actress
#Will
#Actors
A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin.
Charlotte Rampling,
French
Actress
#Film
#Skin
I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves.
Charlotte Rampling,
French
Actress
#Opinions
#Actors