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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
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Isabelle Huppert
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 16
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Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert
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I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress.
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Sometimes, an actress maybe knows how to think.
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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.
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Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.
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If on paper one would say, You're gonna spend three weeks in Death Valley, you say, No, I'm not going to be able to. Very often, very quickly you forget about it.
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It was sometimes 60 degrees [Celsius], but it's very strange, cinema makes you forget reality most of the time. You are more concerned about your inner feelings, or your work.
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One job is to be an actor, the other job is to be a spectator.
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But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing.
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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 did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.
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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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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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I've done many, many French movies and many, many English movies. I think it frees something when you don't talk in your mother language, but I also think you withdraw something as well. I'm a French actress, and sometimes I speak in English-speaking roles. For me, being an actress was always being a traveler. It goes together.
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To be here and now, in principle, is just for once. And then you have to repeat that.
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