Quotes

What is portrayed on stage and in my music videos is different from my everyday lifestyle. But I want to people to see me as CL on stage and in my music.

I just didn't want people to think, Here's this idiot Danish actor who made up this name to get attention. It's really quite common here, and I've had it all my life.

A life cycle can be imposed on an object. An object can be very energetic and active, and then it has a dying phase and a phase of decomposition.

I have no intention of discussing my private life with anyone.

I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

I don't enjoy the life of an actress, but I don't want to go into that.

Security has no place in the life of an actress.

Everything has the potential to be extraordinary, whether an old photograph, a book or a life. If you find it ordinary, you simply need to take a closer look.

I'll settle for successful during my lifetime because at least I can be conscious of the delusion that it means something.

In real life I do a lot of reconnaissance and then kind of choose the guy I'm going to go after. Not like stalking, but I just want a little background info. That might be why I haven't had many bad dates.

Real-life things, like spiders and snakes, that doesn't scare me, but if it's a monster or a ghost or an alien, that will always scare me.

I just want to be a sane person. I wanna be a person who has a life and who acts.

I could truly have gone through life thinking that women were these venomous creatures. Turns out, they're not.

It's a very young mistake to assume that life is very serious. I get the joke now.

I would be a terrible CIA officer in real life.

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

What I needed was a connection to life that was real and lasting.

If I took my characters home with me, half of my life would be a misery, I think. No, I tend to compartmentalize work from my life. I'm not terribly method.

I care about being formally physically attractive in my life, and I think that I am quite vain about my performance. I'm just not vain about how I look while I give the performance.

I have plenty of vanity in my life. I want to look pretty in the world. But it can be this bottomless pit.

I suppose I am interested in the variety of human life - how people live. I am most interested in individuals and how they respond to challenges or to difficulties or just to each other. I am curious about people.

Sometimes bleak is good. Sometimes bleak is necessary. Some part of life is always bleak.

You can spend your whole life in France without ever thinking about the Legion.

Life is not better and more moral than it was in the '50s. It's just the same.

Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper.