Quotes by Isabelle Huppert

About Isabelle Huppert:

Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert is a French actress of stage and screen. Since her debut in 1971, she has appeared in more than 100 film and television productions. She is the most nominated actress for the César Award, with 14 nominations. She was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1999 and was promoted to Officer in 2009.
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Yes, he wanted me to do Funny Games before, which I didn't want to do because the film was very theoretical - the way people experience violence on screen. There was very little space for fiction, it was more like a sacrifice for the actors than anyt...

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Going through this musical experience really helped us to understand the core of the film.

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But theatre is always a difficult experience.

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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.

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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...

Isabelle Huppert

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

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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, knowi...

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In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them. Now it's more ambiguous.

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

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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.

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The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.

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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.

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I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress.

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I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.

Isabelle Huppert

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 cer...

Isabelle Huppert

For me, making films is like being on vacation, it's a nice walk. But theatre is like mountaineering. You never know whether you're going to fall off or make it to the top.

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But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing.

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Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.

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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.

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But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people.

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Author Bio

  • NameIsabelle Huppert
  • DescriptionFrench actress
  • BornMarch 16, 1953
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionFilm Producer; Film Actor; Actor
  • AwardsOfficer Of The Legion Of Honour; Donostia Award