I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished. — Jean Dujardin Copy Share Image
I don't really know Hollywood, but living and shooting in L.A. was very motivating, inspiring. The lights, the extras, their American faces, the energy, the Orpheum Theatre. It was all very inspiring. — Jean Dujardin Copy Share Image
I'm not an American actor. I'm a French actor. I'll continue in France. If I could make another silent movie in America, I'd like… — Jean Dujardin Copy Share Image
As an actor and director, you have to take risks, even though I don't like saying that word. You can make a mistake. — Jean Dujardin Copy Share Image
I'm happiest on set because I'm not myself. I'm someone else. The moustache, the dinner jacket. It's not me. You're always this sort of… — Jean Dujardin Copy Share Image
I like simple things. I like being in my family in the South and playing petanque. — Jean Dujardin Copy Share Image
This is a universal, unique movie, it has potential to cross barriers. But we never thought about that on set, when we were doing… — Jean Dujardin Copy Share Image
I guess we're all lucky to be in this profession where you can be someone else for two or three months on a film… — Jean Dujardin Copy Share Image
I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person. — Jean Dujardin Copy Share Image
I watched a lot of Douglas Fairbanks movies. He always played the same role with a mustache. Zorro had a mustache. The Musketeer had… — Jean Dujardin Copy Share Image
I discovered that silent film is almost an advantage. You just have to think of the feeling for it to show. No lines pollute… — Jean Dujardin Copy Share Image
