Eva Green Quotes

It’s very flattering to be remembered as a Bond girl with brains and not just for looking good in a bikini. I was a fan of Sophie Marceau in ‘The World Is Not Enough.’ I think her performance was very underrated.

I’d rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don’t know what’s coming up for me, my ambition is not to be typecast. So I’m working on my English accent, as well as my American one. I don’t want to be like ‘Okay, I’m French, and I want to succeed in Hollywood!’

I’m French, so I’m quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That’s all.

I need to fall in love with someone. Sorry – I mean fall in love with something. I need to wake myself up.

I love fashion from the 1930s and ’40s – shoulder pads, high waists, things with structure. That is classy for me. Andrea Riseborough from the Madonna movie ‘W.E.’ had an amazing wardrobe.

I don’t wear base, as I don’t like to cover up my freckles, but I couldn’t live without YSL Touche Eclat for hiding my under-eye circles. I love the smoky-eye look, so I use Dior’s 5-Colour Eyeshadow in Night Dust and lashings of mascara. I finish with a dash of bronzer for a healthy glow.

My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It’s very chic and elegant and classic.

I don’t like flirting, and when I love someone, I always give everything, maybe too much. And then you have to work at it all the time. I mean, the first months are always great, but afterwards it becomes hard work. It’s not as passionate and crazy.

Towards the end of ‘Dark Shadows,’ the sets are cracking and bleeding, but so is Angelique. The fact that she breaks apart physically as well as mentally lends an added dimension, and I just loved playing that.

I’m not really involved with politics… I’m living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

I’m worried because of my mother, she’s going to see my performance and she’s quite hard. She’s going to see me naked. And my Dad, woah. Yeah, they’re going to see me like a woman, you know?

It’s quite hard to find a ballsy or complex character. So the roles I’ve taken are those. Lot’s of people put me in the dark category.

I am a dreamer. Seriously, I’m living on another planet.

I hardly ever go to parties. If I really have to, I’ll go, but I’m not the most open person, which is sometimes not the best quality.

Life’s too short to wear high heels.

In Los Angeles, I feel like the ugly duckling, like I’m from Venus or something.

I’m very low-maintenance when it comes to my beauty routine.

For Tim Burton’s birthday I gave him a rainbow beetle. He loved it!

I love the musicality of English. French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch.

In this business actors who have Botox or surgery make you very aware of age. It’s awful.

Actually, when I’m not filming a movie, my beauty approach is really natural – I prefer a bare face that looks really healthy and dewy.

A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.

I feel like I’m 1,000. I don’t feel I’m young enough a lot of the time.

I hope I will not be typecast as a Bond girl for the rest of my life. I’m very proud of being a part of the Bond family, but I don’t want to be the sexy girl forever. I’m not meaning to complain, but I just want to be taken seriously.

For me, working out is nothing to do with looks. It’s to let it all out – the stress, the self-consciousness – you think less; it makes you more centred.

I have my own style and don’t really follow fashion, but I like leggings. They’re easy to wear and can go with anything.

I’m very scared of water. When you don’t see the water… I imagine monsters – stupid things.

England understands good Chinese, Japanese and Indian cuisine; in France, we just get French.

I give everything to my work, and I like complex roles, characters that aren’t obvious. I’ve been very lucky so far, and I’m dreaming of working with directors like Jane Campion, Susanne Bier and the Dardennes. But the gods will decide.

Most of the women in film are there to be beautiful to the man.

The worst is when men try too hard, because it’s not very masculine. Your outfit has to look like ‘Oh, I just grabbed that.’ Not too calculated. Jeans, a t-shirt: the simpler the better.

My mother did movies from the New Wave, but I was quite shocked I didn’t know much about that period. Bernado showed us film of the demonstrations of the time.

When people say ‘You’re so beautiful’ it makes me want to kill myself! As an actress you want to be seen for what you do, for the characters you can play, otherwise I’d be a model.