86 Quotes by Isabelle Huppert

I really admire people who don’t need to live surrounded by lots of stuff. My bedroom is piled up with clothes and books, papers and photographs. I like to collect things, anything I can grab from wherever I’m travelling. I think it’s the sign of slight anxiety to always want something around you to represent a good moment you had, to hang on to the leftovers. But then they’re a pleasure to look at too, so it’s not all negative.

In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them. Now it's more ambiguous

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!

Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.

I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress

Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre

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