I don’t think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings, and my first teacher was my mother [Niseema Theillaud] and then I worked with my father [Jean-Claude Cotillard], who helped me to find in myself all those emotions and how to play with the emotions.

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(On accepting the best actress Oscar for The Passionate Life of Edith Piaf (2007) (aka “La Vie en Rose”)) Thank you life, thank you love, and – it is true – there [are] some angels in this city.

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Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered. And in any case I don’t believe all they tell me, that’s for sure.

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The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it’s not. I have a lot of work.

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My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it’s not against someone else.

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I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.

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