Isabelle HuppertI 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. 374Reflection
Isabelle HuppertI never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress. ✨ Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.321Reading
Isabelle HuppertFirstly 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 re… ▶366Hope
Isabelle HuppertBut it wasn't just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was also a way of approaching the soul of the film, because the film is really about th… ▶322Death
Isabelle HuppertI 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 b… ▶291Life
Isabelle HuppertBefore 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 minu… ▶302HopeTime
Isabelle HuppertBut theatre is always a difficult experience. ✨ Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.347Life
Isabelle HuppertThe 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. ✨ Interview … ▶325Reading
Isabelle HuppertOnce 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'… ▶281Philosophy
Isabelle HuppertActing is a way of living out one's insanity. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.359Life
Isabelle HuppertEven 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 bein… ▶327Thought
Isabelle HuppertPerhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.305Time
Isabelle HuppertI 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 i… ▶327Thought
Isabelle HuppertBut on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing. ✨ Isabelle Huppert (I). Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November… ▶3410Life
Isabelle HuppertFor a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music. ✨ Isabelle Huppert (I). Interview with Christopher Cook, www.thegua… ▶242ThoughtTime
Isabelle HuppertMy mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.298Time
Isabelle HuppertWhen you come to do the film, it is not the time to wonder why you do it. It's just how to do it ✨ Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.212Time
Isabelle HuppertBut 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 ✨ Interview wit… ▶202Humanity
Isabelle HuppertIn 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. ✨ Interview wit… ▶224Thought
Isabelle HuppertIt 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 in… ▶171Thought
Isabelle HuppertFor 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. … ▶204Reading
Isabelle HuppertI 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 ✨ Interview … ▶141ThoughtTruth
Isabelle HuppertFor 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! ✨ Interview with C… ▶165Humor
