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People pretend to be nice, people pretend to be smooth, and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance, because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.

Vincent Cassel

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Vincent Cassel
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: November 23
Actor
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Paris
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Coming from Paris, I'd really like to live in Rio. I think it's gotten better. It's not as violent. The economy is better. The middle class is rising.
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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 always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.
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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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Cronenberg's a lot of fun, and that a lot of people don't know watching his movies. He doesn't take himself seriously. He's still reinventing himself.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. It's part of the culture.
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Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.
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To work with somebody you love makes filming faster, more fun.
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Blood, especially fake, and guns, this is bullshit. It works in the movie, but on set it doesn't work for me.
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The only person standing in your way is you.
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There is this idea that its very different from the French point of view to work in America blah, blah, blah. But I think its different from one person to the other, not from one country to the other.
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Women? I'm still working on the subject. I haven't finished my studies. I would say I'm so happy that they're around. This is the salt and pepper of life. This is what makes me wake up in the morning - even more than work, really.
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The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.
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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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I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.
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When somebody is talking to you about something terrible on set with lines, and you believe what he says, sometimes it gives a strange vibe, because you wonder when that person is talking if he's talking about something that really happened to him and he's using the character.
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My father is best known for his light comedies, and Im best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.
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I love French style from the Thirties and Forties. French movie stars like Jean Gabin and Yves Montand had so much natural, effortless style.
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I really enjoy being an actor!
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