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Charlotte Rampling

Tessa Charlotte Rampling, OBE (born 5 February 1946) is an English actress, model and singer, known for her work in European arthouse films in English, French, and Italian. An icon of the Swinging Sixties, she began her career as a model and later became a fashion icon and muse.

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

Actors, Black, Merited, People

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

Alive, Nice, Process, Quite, Unbelievably

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

American, Character, Depth, Directors, Sensations

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.

Different, Changing Your Life, Moments, Things, Life

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

Change, Frightened, Should, Time, Time For A Change

You don't need the painful memories, because either you've resolved them. Denying always makes them want to come back. Denial is a mechanism that doesn't work. But allowing them to come back in little by little, those memories, you can begin to be quite comfortable with them, and it's even nice to have that as part of the map of your life.

Denial, Map, Memories, Needs, Nice, Part

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

Actors, Believe, Look, Looks, Run, Running

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.

Cinema, Difficulté, Early, Emotion, People

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

Dream, Pain, Period, Reality, Though

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

Easily, I Can, Occupy, Quite

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.

Begin, Difficult, Grieving, Taught

Because one has the animal instinct to seek out the people that suits one - you see people that go on life's journeys and get muddled along the way. If you look at their lives they've always gone with the wrong people. . . can you say it's the wrong people - I don't know.

Animal, Gone, Journey, Journeys, People, Suits

Doing cinema is not about watching yourself

Cinema, Watching

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

Events, Springboard, Term, Terms, Things, Tragic

I think you have to earn beauty. You can use it or abuse it however you want when you`re young. It`s a God-given gift. You have a visiting card - you can go into any room and someone will come and talk to you. But I`ve always thought from very early on that you have to be careful with that - not being vain or narcissistic. Have fun, but don`t be obsessed with it.

Abuse, Fun, Talk, Thinking, Use

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.

Cold, Giving, Impression, Mysterious, Yeah

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

Kissing, Kiss Me, Film, Kiss, Redford

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

Trying, Desperate, Tragic, Huge, Thing

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

Thinking, Actors, Opinion, Opinions, Good

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

Dames, England, Qualified, Way

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