Vincent Cassel Quotes

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Vincent Cassel

Profession : Actor

Birth : November 23, 1966

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.

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'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.

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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.

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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.

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You can't escape from what you are.

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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.

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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.

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They say the day you lose your parents, you start to look like them.

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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.

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I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up.

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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.

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I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.

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My character in 'La Haine,' he's not bad; he's unhappy, and usually, people are like that. Most of us are angry.

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I'm a little angry in life.

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I think I'm actually more vulnerable than people imagine.

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My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.

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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.

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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.

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The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.

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