86 Quotes by Isabelle Huppert

She's really quite talented, ... It was like she had been making movies all her life. There was no naivety or clumsiness.

I studied, as every little French girl, the piano... I studied for 12 years and then I stopped, because I was very bored with it.

I'm standing all the way through the piece, very stiff like a tree, very much rooted in the earth, ... It's like she was wishing to die standing, to die alive. It's a strange feeling.

Yes, that is true, ... A mutual friend of ours told me that Alexandra wanted to give me that script, so she didn't come out of nowhere. But it did take me a while before I read it. Then she insisted every morning and after a few months I read it and I thought, 'Oh my God, it's very good.'

With theatre, I like to compare it to sculpture. It is a shape that you shape. I have this funny image in my head. You can extend it, reduce it.

The story is very cruel and very sharp,

It's not difficult; it's not a big effort. But it's a big effort for me to pursue what I want to do, so that's the effort. When I act, it's just a relief. It's just a respiration.

It's more like breathing for me to act,

I'm very happy. But when this sort of thing happens, it's best to have a certain detachment.