Actor Quotes by Isabelle Huppert

Yes, he wanted me to do Funny Games before, which I didn't want to do because the film was very theoretical - the way…

— Isabelle Huppert

I don't get many good offers. I like to follow the same kind of path I follow in France. If I don't feel the…

— Isabelle Huppert

Even for the most difficult scenes, and there are difficult scenes in the film, and because Michael Haneke is such a great film-maker -…

— Isabelle Huppert

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,…

— Isabelle Huppert

Sometimes over the years, you know, things come to surface.

— Isabelle Huppert

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…

— Isabelle Huppert

Going through this musical experience really helped us to understand the core of the film.

— Isabelle Huppert

The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of…

— Isabelle Huppert

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

— Isabelle Huppert

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…

— Isabelle Huppert

I think movies say a lot [about real life], even more than theater. It says a lot about the invisible, that movies are so…

— Isabelle Huppert

I know some real intellectual people who might laugh, very close friends who might laugh when I'm said to be an intellectual.

— Isabelle Huppert

“I really admire people who don’t need to live surrounded by lots of stuff. My bedroom is piled up with clothes and books, papers…

— Isabelle Huppert

Sometimes, an actress maybe knows how to think.

— Isabelle Huppert

What people think improvisation is and non-improvisation is, it's nothing to do with what you like or dislike. It's all about how it happens…

— Isabelle Huppert