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.
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.
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.
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.
My father danced a lot. He was called 'the French Fred Astaire.'
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.
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.
I'm a little angry in life.
I think I'm actually more vulnerable than people imagine.
My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.
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.
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.
The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.
I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.
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.
To work with somebody you love makes filming faster, more fun.
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.
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.
I have learned that acting is not about beauty.
I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
