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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.

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 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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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 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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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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I never had any barriers coming from my family. Just encouragement.
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Even 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 being inspired, but how to do it, how to make it as real as possible, knowing that it's not real.
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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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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 don't think I'm that intellectual.
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Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.
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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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I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress.
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Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.
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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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But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing.
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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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