50 Quotes by Léa Seydoux

I don’t pay much attention to magazine covers. One day, there’ll be slack times in my career. It’s unavoidable, because success is temporary. Which is why you have to stay focused on this very taxing job.

I went to Berlin for a year and a half, and that’s where I learned about culture and art and everything. Before that, I lived in total absence of culture. I come from a house where there was nothing like reading or art.

In America, you don’t have to be weak, you have to be strong.

There are no nail salons in Paris - it is very expensive to do a manicure. I sometimes get one done.

For me, cinema's like a language - everyone has their own form of it.

It's true that French are not very sophisticated in the sense that they don't dress up for dinners. They are not like Americans, where they are always perfect - the girls are not very sporty; they don't take care of themselves as much as Americans, who always have very white teeth and are so fit.

I don't like modernity. I don't have television or the Internet at home. The Internet scares me. I can't drive a car.

It's a misogynistic world. It's because of what we ask of actresses. We ask them to be sensitive, fragile, desirable. And men? We ask them to be strong and virile.

I like a man who can respect a woman. When he's real attentive, I think that is very manly. To respect a woman is divine.