Charlotte Rampling Quotes

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.

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

I can occupy myself quite easily with what's going on inside me.

I know I have great inner strength; I always have. I can blank things out, cut people out, and I know that I can go and live in a cave on my own if necessary.

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

You go though a period of immense pain when reality meets the dream.

I can be seen as not being very communicative, or rather mysterious, or distant, or rather cold - all those things. Yeah, I know I can give off that impression. So I am that, too.

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.

There's always a time for change, and you should never be frightened of it.

You can't fool an audience with lots of bits and pieces. You have to lead them somewhere.

I regret not having enough training, I trained for a year at The Royal Court, but I very quickly went off to do films and television.

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.

I am not qualified to be a Dame. To be Dame you have to represent England in a way that I don't.

There are moments when things just break apart and not really for very valid reasons, either. But they just change your life and make you go in different directions.

I am fascinated by the whole process of what it's like to be alive, whether it's unbelievably uncomfortable and horrible or whether it's quite nice

By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.

Cinema d'auteur, cinema about people, about emotions. About la difficulté d'être, the difficulty of being, existential problems. That's what the nouvelle vague is. The early '60s was all about that.

One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either.

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.

Doing cinema is not about watching yourself

I've lived through deaths in my family and I've lived through separations in my family so those are the big ones. Those are the ones that press the biggest buttons in human beings' lives.

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

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

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

I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves

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

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

We can never know... But maybe it's because no black actors merited being nominated.Why put people into categories?

You cannot watch yourself dispassionately.