Quotes by Lou Doillon

Lou Doillon

Acting seems much easier than singing, in fact, because you are putting on a costume – whereas here you are taking everything off.

Acting

Costumes

Singing

As soon as it’s behind computers and machines, which the majority of the planet loves, I find it cold. I need to hear breathing. I like the idea of the mic being a captation of everything that’s happening around.

Breathing

Ideas

Majority

Home has always been wherever I am. I’m not very attached to walls – or people, for that matter – so I’ve always loved travelling around. A book in my back pocket, a diary, and a pen is all I need to call any place home.

Book

Home

Wall

I always have lipstick, and use the same lipstick for my cheeks as blush, so that it looks very natural. It’s a good trick I learned from my mother. I like NYX or MAC because they have a lot of pigment and they’re matte.

Looks

Mother

Use

I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.

Acoustics

Guitar

Writing

I always loved singing, but I thought it was like drawing – just something you do in your own little corner to calm yourself down. But when my friend, the French songwriter Etienne Daho, listened to my songs, he was so moved that told me that I had to do a demo, share them with the world.

Drawing

Singing

Song

I hate short hair on men – the ‘real’ man is something I don’t know. My dad was always playing with hairbands, making rings, while the women were wearing jeans, white T-shirts and Converse. That was the uniform at home.

Dad

Hate

Real

I have a huge scarf from Hermes that I bought the day I signed my record deal. I had never had an Hermes scarf. And I ran to buy one, thinking, Now, this is a symbol, I need one, I need an Hermes scarf, which actually now Im quite embarrassed about. Most of the time I twist it so much that no one notices it, and just bundle it around me.

Needs

Thinking

Twists

I have a strong and strange character, and I’ve rarely met directors who knew what to do with this character. One of the few who did was my father, and in the theatre, Arthur Nauzyciel.

Character

Father

Strong

I like costumes. I am always dressing up – I’m very English like that.

Costumes

Dressing Up

Dressings

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Acoustics

Acting

Art

Awe

Beautiful

Book

Boys

Breathing

Buying

Character

Children

Computer

Costumes

Dad

Desire

Different

Disappointment

Drawing

Dressing Up

Dressings

England

Eye

Fall

Fancy

Fashion

Father

Film

Forever

France

Frustration

Garden

Girl

Guitar

Hair

Happy Life

Hate

Helping

Home

Honest

I Don't Need You

Ideas

Impossible

Intention

Jeans

Knees

Laughing

Long

Looks

Losing

Majority

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Quotes by Lou Doillon

Lou Doillon

Acting seems much easier than singing, in fact, because you are putting on a costume – whereas here you are taking everything off.

As soon as it’s behind computers and machines, which the majority of the planet loves, I find it cold. I need to hear breathing. I like the idea of the mic being a captation of everything that’s happening around.

Home has always been wherever I am. I’m not very attached to walls – or people, for that matter – so I’ve always loved travelling around. A book in my back pocket, a diary, and a pen is all I need to call any place home.

I always have lipstick, and use the same lipstick for my cheeks as blush, so that it looks very natural. It’s a good trick I learned from my mother. I like NYX or MAC because they have a lot of pigment and they’re matte.

I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.

I always loved singing, but I thought it was like drawing – just something you do in your own little corner to calm yourself down. But when my friend, the French songwriter Etienne Daho, listened to my songs, he was so moved that told me that I had to do a demo, share them with the world.

I hate short hair on men – the ‘real’ man is something I don’t know. My dad was always playing with hairbands, making rings, while the women were wearing jeans, white T-shirts and Converse. That was the uniform at home.

I have a strong and strange character, and I’ve rarely met directors who knew what to do with this character. One of the few who did was my father, and in the theatre, Arthur Nauzyciel.

I like costumes. I am always dressing up – I’m very English like that.

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