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I really like romantic comedies and light movies and everything but I think - I don't know where it comes from - but when you're doing violent movies, you're closer to reality.

Vincent Cassel

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Vincent Cassel
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: November 23
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Paris
France
Vincent Crochon
Light
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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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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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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.
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The only person standing in your way is you.
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It was like a dream to me to suddenly get into the market with that kind of movie, like La Haine. It actually created my identity as an actor, that thing.
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They say the day you lose your parents, you start to look like them.
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I think I'm actually more vulnerable than people imagine.
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I'm an actor, that's what I do every day. Dressing up is part of my job. But whatever you wear you should always be yourself: never go totally with the fashion but use what there is available to be an individual.
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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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To me, Sheitan movie is the answer to all the problems we have in France concerning immigration. That is a fake problem people can actually work together and do something very interesting out of it.
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I have learned that acting is not about beauty.
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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 had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.
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I really enjoy being an actor!
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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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You usually never know what you're going to do when you're making a movie.
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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I'm more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don't know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves.
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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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I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.
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