57 Quotes by Melanie Laurent

I'm taking a break from music... everyone was so mean about it and it was so hard that I wanted to die.

I want to continue to make beautiful movies. The most important thing is to be a part of beautiful stories, that's all I want. So I don't care if it's a Hollywood movie or an independent movie or a Spanish or American movie. I care about telling stories.

I didn't really want to act. Gerard Depardieu discovered me when I was 14 and asked if I wanted to make movies and I said, 'Why not?

I'm really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have no fears.

The thing is, making movies as an actress, you learn so many things. Like when you're making a movie with Quentin Tarantino you're just at the best cinema school ever.

Every time I play in a movie, I never expect that it'll be huge. I don't like thinking about that, because it's so scary.

There are a lot of French actresses who just hate me now. I've made enemies.

When you make successful movies, everyone on set takes care of you, everybody is so nice and you disconnect from reality.

Sometimes you just work, you work, you work, and you have no life, no boyfriend, you have no more friends, no more nothing, you just make movies, and you're tired, and you don't know why. Then everybody says, 'Oh you are so lucky, you are working!' And you're like, 'Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's so great!'