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I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

Vincent Cassel

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Vincent Cassel
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 23
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Paris
France
Vincent Crochon
Learned
Beauty
Acting

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I think life is short, and you can't spend time doing things just to be on set to reassure yourself that people are not going to forget about you.
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People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.
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I wanted to be an actor to act, and now, being an actor, you have to dress up, you have to be nice, you have to be smart, you have to be sexy, you have to be ready.
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I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.
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I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.
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I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.
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When you have a bunch of scripts that you have to read, the less you have, the better it is, because otherwise, everything is already planned and I think that's a terrible feeling.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. It's part of the culture.
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It's always interesting to see a director trying different things, and on top of it, doing it right each and almost every time.
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I have a huge relationship with Brazil it's almost a love affair, I would say. And to me, to introduce that specific martial art like capoeira in Hollywood movies was something important to me.
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You can't escape from what you are.
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The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.
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When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.
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La Haine - first of all, it was the story of friendship. I was very close with Mathieu Kassovitz he was somebody I met in the nights of Paris. And the hip-hop scene and all that... You know, it was very much about doing our own thing, and some of the subject matter was so close to what we knew and the people we were hanging out with.
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And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.
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I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.
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Perfection is not just about control, it is also about letting go.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.
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I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.
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