Quotes by Charlotte Gainsbourg

The character is close to me, except that I haven’t lived through those situations, so it’s not completely me.

I don’t have tons of scripts where I don’t know what to choose and I’m trying to calculate. It’s either I read something and I have an impulse to do it, or in meeting someone, I want to work with them, but it’s always been very obvious.

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

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

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

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

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