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Sometimes, an actress maybe knows how to think.

Isabelle Huppert

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Isabelle Huppert
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 16
Film Actor
Film Actress
Film Producer
Stage Actor
Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert
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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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Well, my mother, she made me apply for a school where I was supposed to learn how to type. She said, well, instead of going to demonstrate she should at least [learn], because, everything was on strike. So we had to learn something in the meantime.
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Sometimes maybe children also fulfill their parents' secrets desire.
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I don't think I'm that intellectual.
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I know some real intellectual people who might laugh, very close friends who might laugh when I'm said to be an intellectual.
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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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Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.
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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.
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Some roles are easier to choose, some roles are more difficult because they are more daring. Sometimes you have to dare.
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I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress.
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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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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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To be here and now, in principle, is just for once. And then you have to repeat that.
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One job is to be an actor, the other job is to be a spectator.
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The choosing of a role is so difficult for me. That's the real challenge: to choose the role, not to do the role. Once you've chosen them, the process is much easier.
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But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing.
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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.
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Like all school students, I think I did a play in my school. The common things, I would say. Nothing really exceptional.
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But 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 the soul of Schubert and the soul of Bach.
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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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