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It was very liberating to be able to sing in English. It had a different resonance, different images. It was like being a stranger in a foreign land, which was helpful.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

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Charlotte Gainsbourg
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 21
Actor
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Musician
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London
England
Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg
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I was very attached to my family when my father died. I was 19. I was about to go live with my father right when he died, so it was very intense.
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It rarely happens that I get to work again with the same director. I had such a wonderful time on Antichrist with Lars von Trier, that I was going to do whatever he proposed me to do. When he sent me the script of Christmas, I just loved it. I think I love anything he writes.
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Style for me is a casual way of putting something on. It's not thought out but needs to suit your way of life. Now I like wearing the same sweater over and over again, then taking it off when it's smelly.
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In France I'm very private, I don't like talking about my life, and I imagined that people would think that I'm now an open book.
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I was so lucky because I started working very young. And my father was very wealthy and I didn't need to work. I did my films.
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I went on television and I wouldn't say a word I feel so stupid when I watch them again.
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I came to understand that people come and see you because they like you. They don't come to throw things at you.
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In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.
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I felt that people would criticize everything. I was so scared about playing Paris. I was very much aware that the greatest concerts my father and mother had done were there. I was sure people would be very tough.
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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.
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At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.
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I was really nervous about people booing, because my mother had gone for a film 20 years earlier and had a terrible time with people booing, whistling, so I knew that in Cannes people can get aggressive.
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It's difficult for me to write in English as it's not my first language, but French is even worse because of my father's influence and because the comparisons that I - not even other people - would make.
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I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.
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Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.
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I don't have a career plan. I've never done that. Things happen accidentally and I've been lucky.
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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.
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I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.
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I haven't found a comfortable place onstage. I'm sure it doesn't have to be comfortable, but I'm very nervous, so I don't enjoy myself.
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