Eva Green Quotes

"I don`t believe in awards. It`s very good for the ego, I suppose."

"I don`t have a problem with someone having plastic surgery, but I think it`s crazy for everyone to have the same body."

"I don`t want to be a Hollywood star. I just want to do my job and enjoy it. My aim is to find my true identity and to remain true to myself."

"I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don`t have borders."

(About Sybilla, her character in Kingdom of Heaven)"Sybilla suffers from numerous frustrations. She`s an heroine, not a "potiche".

"Onstage, every night you create something new. Plus, you have your audience right there - it`s like performing for the gods."

"At drama school I always picked the really evil roles. It`s a great way to deal with your everyday emotions."

"For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins. Even when I`m not working, I`m always living in my own world, imagining characters."

"It`s a way to exteriorize all my shit. To scream and cry and laugh on-screen, it`s almost like black magic. You can do anything. I`m a dreamer, so that`s a good job for me. Onstage is the only place I can fully express myself."

(About shooting nude scenes for The Dreamers) "I am a very shy person in life, very reserved, but you know, it`s Bertolucci. I`ve seen Last Tango and it`s not pornographic, it`s not vulgar, it`s not sick, so I trusted him. He`s a master of love and eroticism, but it`s good because I stopped being self-conscious. I felt like I was on drugs or anaesthetised because you have to be. You have to let yourself slip away and forget everything, forget the sound guy and all that."

My father is Swedish and my mother is French.

I`m worried because of my mother, she`s going to see my performance and she`s quite hard. She`s going to see me naked. And my Dad, woah. Yeah, they`re going to see me like a woman, you know?

I don`t have a problem with someone having plastic surgery, but I think it`s crazy for everyone to have the same body

(About Sybilla, her character in Kingdom of Heaven (2005):) "Sybilla suffers from numerous frustrations. She`s an heroine, not a "potiche".

Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.

(about the sex scenes in The Dreamers (2003):) "It must be very shocking for the American people, but what I don`t understand is why they are so crazy about that. I don`t understand why you can`t see naked people on screen but we can see a baby being killed. It`s quite strange. They`re too puritan, too uptight." (February 5, 2004)

(about shooting nude scenes for The Dreamers (2003):) "I am a very shy person in life, very reserved, but you know, it`s Bertolucci. I`ve seen Last Tango and it`s not pornographic, it`s not vulgar, it`s not sick, so I trusted him. He`s a master of love and eroticism, but it`s good because I stopped being self-conscious. I felt like I was on drugs or anaesthetised because you have to be. You have to let yourself slip away and forget everything, forget the sound guy and all that." (February 5, 2004)

Everyone wants to work in America. Maybe not blockbusters or Terminator, but to have the choice.

I`m not really involved with politics... I`m living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

I`d rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don`t know what`s coming up for me, my ambition is not to be typecast. So I`m working on my English accent, as well as my American one. I don`t want to be like `Okay, I`m French, and I want to succeed in Hollywood!` Juliette Binoche has set a good example of what I want to do, because she works all over the world, and that`s what I want to do as well

My mother did movies from the New Wave, but I was quite shocked I didn`t know much about that period. Bernado showed us film of the demonstrations of the time.

I`m French, so I`m quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That`s all.

I`ll need my whole lifetime to polish my craft.

My father is a dentist. He has nothing to do with acting. He is proud of me. I come from a bourgeois family, like the family in The Dreamers.

I love photo shoots where I can be like a pinup, not myself. Where I can be feminine, glamorous, dark ... not like in real life. I hate it when you go in and they want you to be `natural,` to be yourself. I just hate it. I love having fun. When they ask you to smile, I hate it. Of course I smile in my real life, but to do it on cue, that`s not spontaneous. I`d rather do something that`s like a little movie, like a little story, rather than just me, I feel naked.

I am many things. I can be quite mad, and young, but I`m not the kind of person who goes out to nightclubs and goes crazy. I am more like lying on my bed and listening to classical music to relax.

I am a dreamer. Seriously, I`m living on another planet.