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Isabelle Huppert Quotes
Isabelle Huppert
French
Actress
Born:
Mar 16
,
1955
Experience
Film
Music
Theatre
Time
You
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Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.
Isabelle Huppert
Insanity
Living
Way
Out
Acting
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 anything else.
Isabelle Huppert
Funny
Me
Experience
People
Space
Sacrifice
Before
Else
On-Screen
Way
More
He
Like
Because
Yes
Very
Than
Screen
Want
Fiction
Wanted
Anything
Anything Else
Which
Little
Theoretical
Games
Film
Actor
Violence
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
You
Think
Else
Way
More
Fact
Talent
How
Than
Being
Anything
Anything Else
Express
Actress
Cope
My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.
Isabelle Huppert
Mom
Religion
Catholic
Want
Anything
Dad
Jew
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
You
Matter
Decision
Made
Once
Intimate
More
Identified
How
Personal
Artistic
Want
Then
Reasons
Deep
Film
Why
Things
Desire
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
Work
You
Example
Big
Difficult
Thinking
Solve
About
Inspired
Through
Feel
For Example
How
Go
Very
Situations
Just
Being
Which
Really
Act
Helps
Amount
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.
Isabelle Huppert
Good
You
Before
Field
Dramatic
Way
Complex
Mingle
Bad
More
Had
Ambiguous
Very
Improved
Them
Now
Things
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.
Isabelle Huppert
Character
Theatre
Films
More
Purpose
Unusual
Understood
Than
Greeks
Interest
Usual
Portraying
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
You
Yourself
Matter
Beginning
Living
Way
Say
Out
More
Know
Make
Becomes
How
Exist
Survive
Want
Social
To Survive
Certain
Certain Way
Function
Actress
Eventually
Ever
I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.
Isabelle Huppert
Work
Stage
Television
Lot
Very
Quickly
Did
Then
Film
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.
Isabelle Huppert
Me
You
Theatre
Walk
Fall
Nice
Films
Top
Never
Like
Know
Make
Making
Off
Mountaineering
Going
Being
Whether
Vacation
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
Music
You
World
Gift
Most Beautiful
Listening
Having
Beautiful Music
Most
Looked
Greater
Camera
Than
Front
Just
Being
Actress
For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.
Isabelle Huppert
Music
Time
Cinema
Long
Long Time
Think
Lot
Rhythm
Compared
But theatre is always a difficult experience.
Isabelle Huppert
Experience
Theatre
Difficult
Always
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