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Vincent Cassel [1966-0] French

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Actor

Vincent Cassel is a French actor best known to English-speaking audiences through his film performances in Ocean's Twelve and Ocean's Thirteen, as well as Black Swan.

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The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.		101
The minute your parents die, you stop fighting them. I realized the more I changed my face for films, the more I looked like him. I always liked to disguise myself because I was trying to run away from his image. But all that is not worth it.		102
You can't escape from what you are.		103
Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.	Movies	104
I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'		105
When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.	Movies	106
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.		107
There is this idea that it's very different from the French point of view to work in America blah, blah, blah. But I think it's different from one person to the other, not from one country to the other.		108
My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.		109
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.		110
I didn't have many girlfriends in my youth. I was an active young man, jumping from one girl to the next, but never with anyone for more than three or four months.		111
People ask me where I live most of the time, and it's kind of complicated for me to answer, because I'm not really sure. It's somewhere in between London, Rome, Paris, and Rio.		112
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.		113
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.		114
I'm a little angry in life.		115
I think I'm actually more vulnerable than people imagine.		116
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.		117
I feel like the so-called bad guys are never totally bad. I guess it's the closest thing I can do to reality: people act nice but nobody really is nice. We all have to balance that with something dark.		118
I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.		119
When eventually I started to act a bit more, I realised that circus school had taught me something that a lot of actors my age didn't have: physicality. They didn't know how to move. Acting is not all about talking. There is something animalistic about it.		120
To work with somebody you love makes filming faster, more fun.		121
I ran away from three different boarding schools before joining a circus school, and eventually I became an actor. The only thing I learned at boarding school was never to send my child to one.		122
There's only so much you can control in life.		123
I have learned that acting is not about beauty.		124
They say the day you lose your parents, you start to look like them.		125
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.		126
I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.		201
Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn't really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists, and have a certain amount of freedom when they work, and they're more like independent filmmakers making their way through big studios.		202
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.		203
I really enjoy being an actor!		204
I love French style from the Thirties and Forties. French movie stars like Jean Gabin and Yves Montand had so much natural, effortless style.		205
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.		206
I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.		207
I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up.		208
I don't think France is a racist country, I really don't, but we do still have many problems with our immigrant past, and there's a shame that goes with that, that works both ways, in the host and in the post-immigrant generation.		209
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.	Travel	210
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.		211
I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.		212
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.		213
The day after I had my licence to drive, I made Paris/Nice at 230 km/hour.		214
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.		215
My character in 'La Haine,' he's not bad; he's unhappy, and usually, people are like that. Most of us are angry.		216
If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.		217
I know that what I see in every religious person is not something I want to teach my kids.		218
From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.		219
I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.		220
Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.		221
The first important movie that I did, I shaved my head for the movie. When the hair grew back, I had white hair for the first time in my life.		222
I work everywhere. If there is a nice adventure in South Korea, for example, why not? Russia, Brazil, whatever. I'm ready for almost anything.		223
My problem is I can't show any of my movies to my daughters. It's tough. 'Beauty and the Beast'... they liked it. But that's the only one, really. Otherwise, they've always been dark or violent.		224
My father danced a lot. He was called 'the French Fred Astaire.'		225
In Italy, it is difficult to see a film in the original language because the voice actors here are a mafia.		226
I was much more interested by clothes when I was younger. I'm about being discreet. What they call the French touch, whatever that means. Low profile and somehow elegant without being flashy.		301
I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.		302
I'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with a big charge of poetry on a daily basis. I feel we've kind of lost that here in Europe.		303
I guess I look strange a bit. Strange but confident. I'm not like a model or anything. I always compare this to wearing a hat. You can wear the strangest hat, but if you think it's cool, then you'll look cool.		304
As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.		305
Many times, I have heard people saying that they don't like to work with their wife or husband, but to me, it is a plus. To work with somebody you love makes filming faster, more fun.		306
Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.		307
I'm actually beginning to believe that there is something in common among all of my characters. I'm not sure what it is exactly. But I guess that something is me.		308
I trained as a dancer when I was much younger, for a large amount of time, like 6 or 7 years. Not to be a ballet dancer, actually, but I thought it was a complement for an actor. I thought that actors should know how to move, should know how to juggle, should know how to do acrobatics.		309
What came out of 'Ocean's Twelve' is actually great because you do one 'Ocean's Twelve,' and you're more known around the world than if you did 20 years in the French cinema industry.		310
Soderbergh is a very respectable director that manages to have an incredible amount of freedom in a system that doesn't allow anybody to be free as he is on a set. And he will jump from 'Solaris' to 'Ocean's Twelve' and 'Thirteen.'		311
I think people have a misinterpretation of Method acting, because Method acting is a wonderful thing. The thing is, if you take it too seriously, it's like religion. You start to think it's the truth. But it's not the truth. It's just a way to get somewhere.		312
Hollywood, for me, is the studios. It's a way to produce. It's a different way to make movies, and I never took part in that.		313
The few times in my life where I had four or five movies in a row, it was a nightmare. I felt trapped. I felt like my life was planned for a year and a half or two years, and it was terrible. Most of the time, everything collapsed.		314
I love to act. And between action and cuts, when you work for somebody great, it's wonderful, and I still love it. The moment where you create, that instant is still magic to me. But, all the rest, I get bored with it - all the waiting, and the fact that you have to make appearances, that you have to share your life.		315
I feel to look for perfection is a very dangerous path. More than that, it's dangerous because it doesn't exist. You can aim for it, but you already know you won't get there because it doesn't exist. Plus, I definitely think the flaws, little cracks, and accidents are a lot more interesting.		316
When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.		317
I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.		318
I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.		319
Female influence came from my grandmother and my aunt. They would sing Corsican love songs while cleaning the house and dress all in black and say melodramatic things like: 'I want to die.'		320
All good actors are actresses. The more like a woman they are, the better they act, because a man's salvation is his femininity. Women have stronger sensibilities than men, which allows them to go a bit deeper when they are on and off the stage.		321
I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys.		322
French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.		323
I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.		324
I have a physical background. It's not like I'm a kung fu master, but my real training was dance school, and through that, I move to this thing called Capruera that I used in 'Ocean's 12.' I can pretend that I can do a lot of things, but then, I don't really master anything.		325
What I think I'm perceived as in France is, like, I'm this leading man always doing strange movies because most of the movies I did, like 'Irreversible' or 'Brotherhood of the Wolf' and a bunch of others, and even in France, they always come out as a particular movie, not like the typical French kind of movies that people know most of the time.		326
If I have to pretend to be anything else than French, then I know it's work for me. It's not that it scares me, but it's work. I cannot just pop up on the set and say 'Okay, today I'm Italian!'		401
I'm really proud of 'Oceans 12.' Of course, you do an 'Oceans' movie, you get known all over the world. It's an incredibly powerful medium: It's a Hollywood-identified blockbuster.		402
I spent a whole year in New York without going back to France. And I always came back because my mother was living in New York since I was 13. So I went to summer camps, hang out at the Roxy, go to class for ballet, so I always had part of my life in New York.		403
As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.		404
Actually, I never work in movies for money. I'm glad when I get well-paid, but it's not always the case - trust me.		405
The relationship I have to everyday life is very European. We have a different relationship with religion, with faith, with nudity, with sex, with food.		406
Instead of playing heroes and righteous people, I'd rather portray characters with problems of conscience who have to lie, to betray, and then have to cope with that. They feel more true to me.		407
French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.		408
Acting is such a feminine process: you have to become the desire of others. I'm OK with this, and so is Gerard Depardieu. In many ways, he's very feminine.		409
'Brotherhood of the Wolf' is a very important movie because it represents something new. The director Christophe Gans came up with the idea of taking a French legend and making it some kind of really strange, almost Chinese action movie. The result is something that I haven't seen anywhere before.		410
I still wear my trousers baggy as I did in my teens. But in a different way. I've loved trainers since my youth - limited edition, vintage, whatever. You could recognise people and judge their character through their trainers. I'm a Nike man.		411
I love Cartier. They are the classic French jeweller.		412

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