Melanie Laurent
Melanie Laurent

Holiday? Is like, what? I'm a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need to find a place for three weeks and work but sleep in the morning, maybe write a little bit, have a glass of red wine. That's my perfect holiday.

Melanie Laurent
Melanie Laurent

I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.

Melanie Laurent
Melanie Laurent

I'm taking a break from music... everyone was so mean about it and it was so hard that I wanted to die.

Melanie Laurent
Melanie Laurent

It's so French to be a cat person.

Melanie Laurent
Melanie Laurent

I never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14.

Melanie Laurent
Melanie Laurent

I like Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. I have some great Balenciaga jackets and I'm shoe crazy.

Melanie Laurent
Melanie Laurent

The thing is, making movies as an actress, you learn so many things. Like when you're making a movie with Quentin Tarantino you're just at the best cinema school ever.

Melanie Laurent
Melanie Laurent

I don't really like those sorts of actresses who say, 'I don't want to make that movie,' but they make the movie. They just spend their time not liking being on a set and I just think it's absurd, because we are so lucky to do this job. When you accept to make a movie, just make the movie. And then it's more easy for relationships.

Melanie Laurent
Melanie Laurent

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

Melanie Laurent
Melanie Laurent

There are a lot of French actresses who just hate me now. I've made enemies.

Melanie Laurent
Melanie Laurent

Every time a director calls me and says, 'If you practice a lot in two months, can you be an American?' And I always tell them, 'Well, maybe but I'm French. So it's going to be hard to be someone else.'

Melanie Laurent
Melanie Laurent

I'm in love with love, so I'm always taking risks! I think it's part of love, taking risks.

Melanie Laurent
Melanie Laurent

Every time I play in a movie, I never expect that it'll be huge. I don't like thinking about that, because it's so scary.

Melanie Laurent
Melanie Laurent

I never practice before, I never work hours on a script. I just choose my characters and trust them, and after that, it's about the director taking your hand.

Melanie Laurent
Melanie Laurent

It seems like the more you grow up the more you fear things.

Melanie Laurent
Melanie Laurent

For me, it was a lot of pressure to make another movie after 'Inglourious Basterds' because I didn't want to do something wrong. I wanted to have a beautiful project for another American movie.

Melanie Laurent
Melanie Laurent

When you're an artist, there's always a moment in your life when you think you're not inspired and instead of doing things and instead of travel and instead of falling in love, you're just depressed, so you don't move, so you don't change. So you're not inspired.

Melanie Laurent
Melanie Laurent

When I was a little girl my parents always told me do everything you want in an artistic way. If you want to draw, make a drawing. Just do it. And if you want to play piano, play piano. It was a very free childhood where everything was possible.

Melanie Laurent
Melanie Laurent

I think I was, like, maybe frustrated for many years because I didn't try to direct. And since I made my movie I'm just like, 'It's great.'

Melanie Laurent
Melanie Laurent

The perfect life would be to have an amazing part every year and to spend all my free time to just write.