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One job is to be an actor, the other job is to be a spectator.

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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Firstly 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 relate to space makes it like sculpture.
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But 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
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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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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!
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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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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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But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing.
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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 don't think I'm that intellectual.
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A film is the reflection of the soul of its creator.
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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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You don't want to cry over yourself, you don't want to have compassion about yourself. It's not the right place.
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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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To be here and now, in principle, is just for once. And then you have to repeat that.
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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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I was raised and I was going to school in the suburbs of Paris. And so we, I didn't really go to the riots, to the barricade. I was too young, actually. Rather young.
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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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I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.
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Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.
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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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