“Like all school students, I think I did a play in my school. The common things, I would say. Nothing really exceptional.” ThinkingPlaySchoolCommonStudentsExceptionalCommon Things Author:Isabelle Huppert
“Am I an intellectual? I don't think so. Less than people sometimes think, I have to say. But more than some others think.” PeopleThinkingSometimesIntellectual Author: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.” 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
“We all pretend to be very strong, and then in a fraction, you can just break down, at least for me.” StrongBreakVery StrongBreaking DownFractions 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
“One job is to be an actor, the other job is to be a spectator.” JobsActorsSpectators Author:Isabelle Huppert
“By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.” IfsLinesActingDefinitionsImprovisation Author:Isabelle Huppert