Vincent Cassel Quotes

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

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.

Perfection is not just about control, it is also about letting go.

Good guys need to be a little dirty otherwise they're just boring.

The only person standing in your way is you.

You can't escape from what you are.

I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.

I'm more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don't know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves.

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.

Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.

I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.

I'm a little angry in life.

I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.

I wanted to be an actor to act, and now, being an actor, you have to dress up, you have to be nice, you have to be smart, you have to be sexy, you have to be ready.

I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.

When you have a bunch of scripts that you have to read, the less you have, the better it is, because otherwise, everything is already planned and I think that's a terrible feeling.

If kids really made all the parents better, there wouldn't be crazy kids in the world.

I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.

If the guy behind the camera is not good, the pictures are bad. It's still you, and it's the same lines and everything, but it doesn't work.

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.

I really like romantic comedies and light movies and everything but I think - I don't know where it comes from - but when you're doing violent movies, you're closer to reality.

I love French style from the Thirties and Forties. French movie stars like Jean Gabin and Yves Montand had so much natural, effortless style.

I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.

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

I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

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.

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

I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.

I really enjoy being an actor!

When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

I think life is short, and you can't spend time doing things just to be on set to reassure yourself that people are not going to forget about you.

Blood, especially fake, and guns, this is bullshit. It works in the movie, but on set it doesn't work for me.

It's always interesting to see a director trying different things, and on top of it, doing it right each and almost every time.

I think American audiences like gangster movies. It's part of the culture.

The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.

Cronenberg's a lot of fun, and that a lot of people don't know watching his movies. He doesn't take himself seriously. He's still reinventing himself.

Coming from Paris, I'd really like to live in Rio. I think it's gotten better. It's not as violent. The economy is better. The middle class is rising.

You usually never know what you're going to do when you're making a movie.

I have a huge relationship with Brazil; it's almost a love affair, I would say. And to me, to introduce that specific martial art like capoeira in Hollywood movies was something important to me.

To me, Sheitan movie is the answer to all the problems we have in France concerning immigration. That is a fake problem; people can actually work together and do something very interesting out of it.

I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.

To work with somebody you love makes filming faster, more fun.

It was like a dream to me to suddenly get into the market with that kind of movie, like La Haine. It actually created my identity as an actor, that thing.

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

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

I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.

Neither of us are workaholics. I think the key thing is to accept that if you only exist through what you do, then you become what you do, and this is very wrong.

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.