Vincent Cassel Biography
Vincent Cassel (born November 23, 1966) is a French actor. He first achieved recognition for his performance as a troubled French Jewish youth in Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 film La Haine, for which he received two César Award nominations. He garnered wide recognition with English-speaking audiences for his performances in Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007), as well as Eastern Promises (2007), Black Swan (2010), and Jason Bourne (2016).
Cassel is also renowned for playing the infamous French bank-robber Jacques Mesrine in Mesrine: Killer Instinct and Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One (both in 2008). In 2020, he portrayed Engerraund Serac in the HBO television series Westworld.
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Vincent Cassel Quotes
Disdain for the Frozen Corpse
Kirill: [[w:Pederasty|Pederast]
(In Russian) ] (Spits on a frozen corpse)
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Tensions Over Loyalty and Leadership in Elizabethan England
Sir Robert Dudley: [to Elizabeth]
Remember who you are. Do not be afraid of them.
Norfolk: [about Elizabeth]
She is just a child and yet still you piss yourselves!
Norfolk: [to Mary, on her deathbed, as she refuses to sign a warrant for Elizabeth's execution]
Will you leave your kingdom to a heretic?
Arundel:
War is a sin, but sometimes, a necessary one.
De la Quadra: [to Dudley]
My lord, what will a man not do for love?
Duc d'Anjou: [in French]
Elizabeth is a witch...a witch...and her servant is the devil!
Mary of Guise: [in French, to herself; turns to her officer]
Go back to England, and take this to your Queen. Hm? English blood on French colors. Send him back to his Queen, and make sure he remains alive. Tell that bastard Queen not to send children to fight Mary of Guise!
Sir William Cecil:
He is a traitor, and his father before him. Lord Robert's head will end up on a spike, not on the pillow of a Queen.
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