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Julie Delpy

(1969) Film Actor United States

103 quotes in 487 categories

The Academy is often described as white‑male dominated, a criticism Julie Delpy has faced. She talks about having to trick people for money to make her first film and the difficulty of getting financing for a war movie as a young woman. She also reminds us that love can exist despite people’s faults.

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Julie Delpy is a film actor from the United States, best known for 2 days in NY.

Quick Facts About Julie Delpy

Born: December 21, 1969
Nationality: United States
Profession: Film Actor
Notable works: 2 days in NY

About Julie Delpy

Julie Delpy is a French‑American actress, screenwriter and director. She studied filmmaking at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Over her career she has directed, written and acted in more than thirty films, such as Europa Europa (1990), Voyager (1991), Three Colours: White (1993), the Before trilogy, An American Werewolf in Paris (1997) and 2 Days in Paris (2007).

Awards & Honors

European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema Award National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Officer of Arts and Letters Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres

Quotes by Julie Delpy

“A waltz for a night”

Dance

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Baby, you are gonna miss that plane.

Baby

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I think some people, when they get a certain ego, they lose sense of whatever.

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“Even being alone it's better than sitting next to your lover and feeling lonely.”

Feeling lonely

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Usually I'm able to imagine something and it comes out as I imagined, more or less.

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If Woody Allen called me, I'd be there straight away. Who wouldn't? Truly.

Film

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Maybe I'm a bit of a psycho-but I'd rather be psycho than boring.

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I think I do find humor in disorder, and reality is disorder.

Comedy

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I find most films about fashion terrible because they are caricaturish.

Cinema

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I want to be positive and say: everything I've written will get made eventually.

Being positive

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I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I woke up and I was 23. So relieved. And…

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Never take no for an answer. It took me 20 years between the time I wrote my first screenplay and the time…

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The camera can move, you can make the shots, blah blah blah, but as long as the actors are good, you have…

Actors

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It's easier for Europeans to give money to a movie that says a blow job is what brought down American democracy.

American democracy

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My experience is that relationships can be difficult, hard work. I love to be in a relationship.

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You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details.

Beautiful

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I avoid confrontation. When I'm on set I never snap at anyone. I don't have a temper.

Confrontation

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I'm dreaming about making movies for eight weeks, because it's a luxury. But time is money. That's the reality.

Dream

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I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected…

Cinema

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Very quickly I realized that directing is a combination of things: It's visual, it's directing the actors, it's telling a story. And…

Actors

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I love the acting process. What I don't like is what's around it. The auditions and being rejected every other day. The…

Acting

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You're never totally sure. I shouldn't say that because you have to pretend you're completely self-secure all the time. But, the truth…

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The way I work is that I never let people do an assembly. I don't like it because it shapes the film…

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I didn't really fit with other kids. I had problems in school all my life and problems with authority. But my parents…

Authority

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I'm not going to pursue it the way that actors pursue it which means going to all of the auditions and getting…

Actor

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I have a few other films in my life where I'm not attached and for a long time it was too complicated.…

Actresses

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So often in my life I've been with people and shared beautiful moments like travelling or staying up all night and watching…

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I'm 43, and I really don't take care of my looks. It's kind of a bad thing for an actress, but at…

Aging

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It's very hard to sustain love, that's for sure. But the more you have your own life and your own self, and…

Desperate

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When people go through a fight, they're saying things because they hurt, and they want to hurt the person back. Sadly, that's…

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Some people are still very romantic! I mean, those funny vampire films are super romantic, and I don't think that's bad. It…

Age

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“Let me sing you a waltz / Out of nowhere, out of my thoughts / Let me sing you a waltz /…

Goodbye

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Being happy is not all about love! Love is not everything. Work, friends, and achieving things... your finite thing in life can't…

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The condition of being an actress can be unbearable.

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Reality and love are almost contradictory for me.

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To make what you have in your head, I think that's what directing is.

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People have their faults, but it doesn't prevent you from loving them.

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I learned directing by editing because I saw all the mistakes I had made.

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I went to film school to make films just because you're in control of the story.

Cinema

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Isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?

Before sunrise

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Julie Delpy by topic

People (28) Film (27) Thinking (16) Cinema (15) Love (11) Life (11)