Charlotte Rampling quotes

Charlotte Rampling is a renowned French-British actress known for her intense and enigmatic screen presence. Her career spans several decades, with acclaimed performances in films such as "The Night Porter" and "45 Years." She has received numerous international awards and continues to inspire with her artistry. Here are 27 of her quotes:

I did that film just so I could kiss Robert Redford.

Charlotte Rampling

Fashion is not trivial. It's a huge industry and a big part of our lives. Fashion is about us - how we look and present ourselves, how we can change ourselves, and our perceptions. You can dress up to be quite glorious creatures - it's all a very important part of life.

Charlotte Rampling

Ever since I was a small child, I've had this feeling - it's in my nature, and so it's not even pretentious - that if everyone's going one way, I will go the other, just by some kind of spirit of defiance.

Charlotte Rampling

We weren't happy. It was a nightmare, breaking the rules and all that.

Charlotte Rampling

There are so many misunderstandings in life. I once caused a scandal by saying I lived with two men [...] I didn't mean it in a sexual sense [...] I was just too dirty to clean my act up.

Charlotte Rampling

You cannot watch yourself dispassionately.

Charlotte Rampling

Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.

Charlotte Rampling

Training is fabulous because it gives you a basis, a strong structure, so that when you're unbelievably nervous and you think that you can't get a word out, you will get the word out.

Charlotte Rampling

You can never really judge your work because once it's done, it's done.

Charlotte Rampling

I must explore desert ground and see what can grow. But there are limits. I know in my heart what I would never do.

Charlotte Rampling

The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.

Charlotte Rampling

Doing cinema is not about watching yourself.

Charlotte Rampling

A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all.

Charlotte Rampling

The '60s in London obviously brought about the explosion of music, the Beatles especially, and then the Rolling Stones and other forms of music, and then fashion and photography and films - kitchen-sink dramas we called them at that time, which was our nouvelle vague in Britain, films that talk about real life.

Charlotte Rampling

If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life into your painting.

Charlotte Rampling

I thought that after such a long time of not letting her be with me.

Charlotte Rampling

I felt very special in Paris, more special than I felt in London. I love London for different reasons. I've always been close to London, being English. But somehow, there's something special about living as an Englishwoman in Paris.

Charlotte Rampling

European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films.

Charlotte Rampling

If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words.

Charlotte Rampling

To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve.

Charlotte Rampling

French women have been made beautiful by the French people - they're very aware of their bodies, the way they move and speak, they're very confident of their sexuality. French society's made them like that.

Charlotte Rampling

A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin.

Charlotte Rampling