I don`t think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings, and my first teacher was my mother [Niseema Theillaud] and then I worked with my father [Jean-Claude Cotillard], who helped me to find in myself all those emotions and how to play with the emotions.

(On accepting the best actress Oscar for `La Vie en Rose`) Thank you life, thank you love, and - it is true - there is some angels in this city.