124 Quotes by Charlotte Rampling

You cannot watch yourself dispassionately.

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

A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin

I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves

Doing cinema is not about watching yourself

I got the O.B.E because I represent England outside of England more...but thinking of me as an actor, I haven't done all the classical theatre, all the great roles. Think of Helen Mirren and me. Helen, who I adore, is a friend - should be Dame. I am the rebel, the revolutionary on the side.

Close girlfriends I don't have necessarily, as an actress. Perhaps there is a thing of competition there, you know, when you're doing the same things, and you're the same age. I could be with younger actors, but woman of my age probably - there is and there isn't, one doesn't like to think of it, but I think there is a sense of competition. Which is good, also.

We can never know... But maybe it's because no black actors merited being nominated.Why put people into categories?

I know a lot about fear in itself, and lived with fear a lot. Lived with anxiety a lot, lived with the things that - most human beings, at some stage in their lives, are going to live with these feelings.