“I know some real intellectual people who might laugh, very close friends who might laugh when I'm said to be an intellectual.” PeopleKnowsSaidRealMightLaughingIntellectualClose Friends 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
“Balzac, you know, our great Balzac, he wrote interesting things about how in literature you keep distance in order to express great feelings. You have to keep a distance - and it's exactly the same with acting.” KnowsFeelingsOrderLiteratureInterestingActingDistanceInteresting ThingsGreat FeelingsBalzac Author:Isabelle Huppert
“Sometimes over the years, you know, things come to surface.” KnowsYearsSometimesSurface 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
“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 to fall off or make it to the top.” KnowsFilmFallWalksNiceTheatreVacationBeing NiceMountaineering Author:Isabelle Huppert
“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.” KnowsCharacterBehindsNormalTragedyUnusualAbnormalNormal And Abnormal Author:Isabelle Huppert
