119 Quotes by Charlotte Gainsbourg

I love being a beginner. It can be a terrible feeling because you’re ashamed of everything you do, but it’s so exciting at the same time.

I don’t have a career plan. I’ve never done that. Things happen accidentally and I’ve been lucky.

Before I started touring, I worked with someone to help me, even physically, because I was so shy. And you can’t be shy going onstage. So I had to push myself in a direction that wasn’t myself.

I’m desperate to work again. I’ve often had those periods, but two years was the longest.

I came to understand that people come and see you because they like you. They don’t come to throw things at you.

I’d love to be able to write again, but I’m so repetitive. And it was all about fear. Never positive. Just indulgent about my sadness.

I started so old, so the touring world will always be a foreign land for me. I’ll never be someone who’s “been on the road.”

I don’t like being on my own. I’m happy meeting people and collaborating.

Maybe, in the back of my head, I’m thinking I have to do as much as I can. It’ll stop.