Quotes by Clemence Poesy

Clemence Poesy

A film is a great deal about what you see, and the silhouette of a character tells you a lot. I’d love to go into film costume.

Character

Costumes

Silhouettes

Acting makes you look at life and try to understand it in a beautiful way.

Acting

Beautiful

Trying

For me, it’s about not being too aware of what you look like because if you are, you’re trying too hard and I don’t think that actually makes you look good. I’ve known from very early on that I don’t look perfect.

Perfect

Thinking

Trying

I am interested in costume. Clothes in your daily life are important: your choices say something about you, even if what they’re saying is about non-choice. And what you wear in a film is crucial.

Choices

Clothes

Important

I believe you have to make things happen.

Believe

Happens

Make Things Happen

I constantly make fashion mistakes but I think it’s good to take risks.

Fashion

Mistake

Thinking

I feel so lucky that I live in a society that lets women be. I think that’s the one of the biggest fights to keep having, is to fight for women to have the right to live their life the way they want to live it.

Fighting

Thinking

Way

I had a grungy period and looked like a tramp for a very long time – my mum really hated it! I destroyed her entire ’70s wardrobe by putting studs into everything – I thought I was really cool. But it’s good to experiment – I even had dreadlocks at one point.

Long

Periods

Really Cool

I had starred in TV movies without much artistic value. They gave me a certain range. I knew that I was going to continue my studies, but I wanted to try something else on the side. I wanted to see what would come of it.

Sides

Trying

Tvs

I have a lot of respect and admiration for someone like Cate Blanchett, find Emma Thompson wonderful, Meryl Streep inspiring, Juliette Binoche full of light and Catherine Deneuve incredible.

Admiration

Light

Wonderful

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Acting

Admiration

Beautiful

Believe

Bits

Character

Choices

Clothes

Costumes

Crazy

Faces

Fashion

Fighting

Giving

Happens

Home

House

Ifs

Important

Interesting

Jeans

Latin

Light

Long

Los Angeles

Lucky

Make Things Happen

Married

Mirrors

Mistake

My Sister

Naked

New York

Night

Normal

Parent

Paris

People

Perfect

Periods

Philosophy

Problem

Really Cool

School

Sides

Silhouettes

Strange

Taken

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Temptation

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Quotes by Clemence Poesy

Clemence Poesy

A film is a great deal about what you see, and the silhouette of a character tells you a lot. I’d love to go into film costume.

Acting makes you look at life and try to understand it in a beautiful way.

For me, it’s about not being too aware of what you look like because if you are, you’re trying too hard and I don’t think that actually makes you look good. I’ve known from very early on that I don’t look perfect.

I am interested in costume. Clothes in your daily life are important: your choices say something about you, even if what they’re saying is about non-choice. And what you wear in a film is crucial.

I believe you have to make things happen.

I constantly make fashion mistakes but I think it’s good to take risks.

I feel so lucky that I live in a society that lets women be. I think that’s the one of the biggest fights to keep having, is to fight for women to have the right to live their life the way they want to live it.

I had a grungy period and looked like a tramp for a very long time – my mum really hated it! I destroyed her entire ’70s wardrobe by putting studs into everything – I thought I was really cool. But it’s good to experiment – I even had dreadlocks at one point.

I had starred in TV movies without much artistic value. They gave me a certain range. I knew that I was going to continue my studies, but I wanted to try something else on the side. I wanted to see what would come of it.

I have a lot of respect and admiration for someone like Cate Blanchett, find Emma Thompson wonderful, Meryl Streep inspiring, Juliette Binoche full of light and Catherine Deneuve incredible.

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