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
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
carried life
I could have carried on in comedy. But my life was dark.
anyone destroyed mine
I started writing diaries, and mine were horrible. Oh, the monotony. Oh, the angst. I said, 'I don't want anyone to find these!' I destroyed them.
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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.
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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.
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I was incredibly fatalistic. I just thought, 'If it works, it works.' But I've always been like that. I've never been easily impressed, and I've never thought I didn't deserve something. If I got it, then I deserved it.
love people
Usually, watching yourself is pretty awful. People think we all love watching our own films. We don't. We cringe away from it.
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I am fascinated by the variety of social content and political content in the films we will be judging. This is the kind of cinema I like a lot and the kind I think is very important.
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I am always very intrigued and very fascinated by the variety of social comment and political comment and high-powered emotional content that you get through the films in Berlin.
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She places in this young man all the desire and all the hope that she yearns for in her life, which finally turns out to be an imaginary life, but her imagination makes her really feel something for him.