Isabelle Huppert Quotes - Page 2

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• Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Play, Two, Miracle

  Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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• For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!

  Isabelle Huppert

  Beautiful, Listening, Cameras

  Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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• Even for the most difficult scenes, and there are difficult scenes in the film, and because Michael Haneke is such a great film-maker - I think a great film-maker is not only being inspired, but how to do it, how to make it as real as possible, knowing that it's not real.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Real, Thinking, Knowing

  Guardian interviews at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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• It really helps you to go through difficult situations by just thinking about it as being a big amount of work which you have to solve how to do. For example, I don't feel very inspired when I act, I just act. That's it.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Thinking, Difficult Situations, Example

  "Isabelle Huppert (I)". Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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• I know some real intellectual people who might laugh, very close friends who might laugh when I'm said to be an intellectual.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Real, People, Laughing

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Want, Matter, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The big problem in the world is when people are forced to be in a totally foreign context.

  Isabelle Huppert

  People, World, Problem

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• There are many different ways of being funny. I'm not sure that there's so many different ways of being dramatic.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Different, Way, Dramatic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm curious and you know, I really think cinema is strong medium that allows you to go to so many different mental countries, not just geographical countries. As far as it allows me to express something of my own truth, it's fine for me. I can go to the moon.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Country, Strong, Moon

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons why you want to do the film, then it's more a matter of how to do things

  Isabelle Huppert

  Decision, Desire, Want

  Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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• I don't get many good offers. I like to follow the same kind of path I follow in France. If I don't feel the movie is very original or has a good amount of potential, I don't do it. In the films I've done I can feel I'm part of a specific universe, but those sorts of opportunities are quite rare.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Opportunity, Done, Path

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• Of course you have to create the conditions of a certain belief. And maybe ignoring something that you don't want to see, at least for the time of the shooting.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Shooting, Want, Belief

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• One job is to be an actor, the other job is to be a spectator.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Jobs, Actors, Spectators

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I never had any barriers coming from my family. Just encouragement.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Encouragement, My Family, Barriers

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Sometimes maybe children also fulfill their parents' secrets desire.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Children, Parent, Secret

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The choosing of a role is so difficult for me. That's the real challenge: to choose the role, not to do the role. Once you've chosen them, the process is much easier.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Real, Challenges, Roles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Skeptic, Believer, Bits

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• I think that a sense of humor of an actor comes through most of the time. Maybe some actors have less than others, and I have it, I think. It's my nature.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Thinking, Actors, Sense Of Humor

  "Isabelle by Isabelle". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 8, 2016.

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• When you come to do the film, it is not the time to wonder why you do it. It's just how to do it

  Isabelle Huppert

  Wonder, Film

  Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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• My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Inspiring, Mom, Dad

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• I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything

  Isabelle Huppert

  Thinking, Way, Facts

  Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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• I was raised and I was going to school in the suburbs of Paris. And so we, I didn't really go to the riots, to the barricade. I was too young, actually. Rather young.

  Isabelle Huppert

  School, Paris, Young

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• To be a great director, what does it mean exactly? It's not only about a great director, but also about being able to rely on the very special chemistry that goes between them. It not only has to be a great director, but the great director has to make his relationship to you, the actor, very special.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Mean, Special, Directors

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• You don't want to cry over yourself, you don't want to have compassion about yourself. It's not the right place.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Compassion, Over You, Want

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Voice, Space, Giving

  Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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