“One would expect an actress to stand onscreen mostly as a caricature. If she would say, "I'm selling shoes," you would believe her. She says it and it creates this fiction, non-fiction perception of the film. People believe it because she says it. If she said, "I'm a butcher," people would believe it too, I think.” PeopleIfsThinkingBelieveSaidFilmFictionPerceptionShoesActressesSellingNon FictionCaricaturesButchersSelling Shoes Author:Isabelle Huppert
“I was the youngest of five, and I think my mother always knew I was meant to be an actress.” ThinkingMotherFiveActressesMeant To BeWere Meant To Be Author:Isabelle Huppert
“Sometimes, an actress maybe knows how to think.” ThinkingKnowsSometimesKnow HowActresses Author:Isabelle Huppert
“When you're an actress you are in a very specific position, cerebrally, I would think you know. You are a thinking person but you are in a certain perception of the world between really being conceptual and completely stupid. So you are in between, with a lot of intuition and instinct. And that's not completely being intellectual because I think intuition is more blurred. It comes from intuition. Instinct. More than really reasoning.” ThinkingKnowsWorldPersonsCertainStupidPositionPerceptionIntellectualInstinctIntuitionActressesReasoningPerception Of The WorldThinking Person Author:Isabelle Huppert
“I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress.” ShouldStageActresses Author:Isabelle Huppert
“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.” IfsKnowsWayWantMatterCertainSocialFunctionActresses Author:Isabelle Huppert
“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” ThinkingWayFactsTalentActressesUntalented Author:Isabelle Huppert
“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!” WorldBeautifulGreaterFrontsListeningCamerasActressesJust BeingBeautiful Music Author:Isabelle Huppert
