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Isabelle Huppert Quotes

French - Actress | March 16, 1955 -

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

Isabelle Huppert

Acting Insanity Living Way Out

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 Thinking Feel You Go Difficult

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 Purpose Theatre More Than

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

Talent Think You Way More Anything

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

Hope Time Evening Short You Play

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

Isabelle Huppert

Religion Mom Want Anything Catholic

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

Isabelle Huppert

More Europeans Perhaps Skeptic Bit

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 Experience Sacrifice Space Me

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

Time You Wonder Why Film Just

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 Deep You Desire Personal

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 Bad Now Way More

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

Isabelle Huppert

Never Stage Actress Movie Should

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