Charlotte Rampling
Charlotte Rampling
Tessa Charlotte Rampling, OBEis an English actress, model and chanteuse, known for her work in European arthouse films in three languages, English, French, and Italian...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth5 February 1946
CountryFrance
roles
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.'
remember
When I see a young girl, I can see why you would be attracted if you were a man. I remember when it was like that for me, too, and it was nice.
For an actor, if you're not doing a job, you can't just practice acting. Your instrument is your whole person.
What I am doing is not acting. I am playing myself.
cinema edge everyday life mothers played project wicked
I've played the wicked mothers; I've played the serial-killer-type mothers now. They have to have an edge on them. They can't just be everyday moms, because I never thought of myself as an everyday person in cinema - I'm an everyday person in real life, like anyone. But not in what I project out there. I want something more exciting.
channel creative feeling painting sensuality
Painting and photography keep the creative channel open, and for an actor, it's to keep alive, it's to keep awake, it's to keep watching, it's to keep feeling, it's to keep enjoying, to keep that sensuality of feeling alive.
basic flattered men style suits
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.
amount certain needs screen work
If you don't have a certain amount of stage fright, then it's not going to be that interesting. It's not going to have the inner vibration. I think screen work needs inner vibration.
feeling nature since spirit
Ever since I was a small child, I've had this feeling - it's in my nature, and so it's not even pretentious - that if everyone's going one way, I will go the other, just by some kind of spirit of defiance.
breathe inner life paint
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.
describe finally good remember saying
I remember my father saying to me once, 'I finally know how to describe you, Charlotte. You're prickly.' And he was right - prickly is a very good description. If I had to be an animal, I'd probably be a porcupine.
good
It's sort of fun. If someone's eyeballing you, it makes you feel good.
kissing film
I did that film just so I could kiss Robert Redford.
judging done
You can never really judge your work because once it's done, it's done.