I am actually a very unspeaking person. I’m not really good in social situations. People expect me to be more outgoing. I don’t know why. They think I have this kind of assurance. – Charlotte Rampling
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. – Charlotte Rampling
A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin. – Charlotte Rampling
French women have been made beautiful by the French people – they’re very aware of their bodies, the way they move and speak, they’re very confident of their sexuality. French society’s made them like that. – Charlotte Rampling
I must explore desert ground and see what can grow. But there are limits. I know in my heart what I would never do. – Charlotte Rampling
I think the happiest time of my life was when I was in my late teens. I was a little bit of an it-girl. Making myself seen. And it was a wonderful time to be young. – Charlotte Rampling
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. – Charlotte Rampling
If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life into your painting. – Charlotte Rampling
If words don’t have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they’re just words. – Charlotte Rampling
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. – Charlotte Rampling
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. – Charlotte Rampling
If you were to find all the people I’ve worked with and ask them what they think of me, they’re all just going to say, ‘Oh, wonderful’, and it’ll just be a lot of blah. – Charlotte Rampling
When a subject pops into a director’s head, you either fit in there somewhere, or you don’t. An actor is only who he is. Especially as you get older, there’s not as much of a range of potentially feasible parts. – Charlotte Rampling
I was very friendly with Jimi Hendrix because my boyfriend at the time, Tommy Weber, was making a film about him, so I would go to all of his shows. – Charlotte Rampling
One mysterious person looking at another mysterious person equals what? Another mystery. – Charlotte Rampling
I don’t want to play everything. So I’ll seek out roles that I’ll say, ‘This is edgy. This is fun. This is wicked. This suits me.’ – Charlotte Rampling
My mother’s incredible diaries, which she’d written from when she was 21, and even before that. She fell in love with my father when she was 12. – Charlotte Rampling
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. – Charlotte Rampling
I haven’t got ambitions. Actually, I’m determined not to die until I get very old. I want to be a great-great-great-grandmother. – Charlotte Rampling
I felt very special in Paris, more special than I felt in London. I love London for different reasons. I’ve always been close to London, being English. But somehow, there’s something special about living as an Englishwoman in Paris. – Charlotte Rampling
My style very much leans towards the masculine, but I think I am feminine in it – I like the feminine body in masculine shapes. The androgynous look suits me. – Charlotte Rampling
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. – Charlotte Rampling
I think what we do best, in the artistic world, are the things where we’re handicapped. – Charlotte Rampling
The ’60s in London obviously brought about the explosion of music, the ‘Beatles’ especially, and then the ‘Rolling Stones’ and other forms of music, and then fashion and photography and films – kitchen-sink dramas we called them at that time, which was our ‘nouvelle vague’ in Britain, films that talk about real life. – Charlotte Rampling
I’m very flattered to be called a style icon! But it’s simple, my style; it’s just men’s suits and shoes. That’s the basic premise. – Charlotte Rampling
