142 Quotes by Vincent Cassel

As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.

Actually, I never work in movies for money. I'm glad when I get well-paid, but it's not always the case - trust me.

My character in 'La Haine,' he's not bad; he's unhappy, and usually, people are like that. Most of us are angry.

The relationship I have to everyday life is very European. We have a different relationship with religion, with faith, with nudity, with sex, with food.

My problem is I can't show any of my movies to my daughters. It's tough. 'Beauty and the Beast'... they liked it. But that's the only one, really. Otherwise, they've always been dark or violent.

Instead of playing heroes and righteous people, I'd rather portray characters with problems of conscience who have to lie, to betray, and then have to cope with that. They feel more true to me.

Acting is such a feminine process: you have to become the desire of others. I'm OK with this, and so is Gerard Depardieu. In many ways, he's very feminine.

'Brotherhood of the Wolf' is a very important movie because it represents something new. The director Christophe Gans came up with the idea of taking a French legend and making it some kind of really strange, almost Chinese action movie. The result is something that I haven't seen anywhere before.

In Italy, it is difficult to see a film in the original language because the voice actors here are a mafia.