50 Quotes by Jean Dujardin

I don’t want everyone to like me, and I don’t choose who likes me. You have to give them the choice, give them the option.

I discovered that silent film is almost an advantage. You just have to think of the feeling for it to show. No lines pollute it. It doesn’t take much – a gaze, an eyelash flutter – for the emotion to be vivid.

OSS 117 and maybe Un Balcon Sur La Mer directed by Nicole Garcia. It’s a typical French movie with typical French themes with French actors, a French director...

I don’t like to shoot too many movies since I like to do them well.

I recycle. I have a house in the south of France and I have a small garden. My name is Dujardin – ‘from the garden.’ I grow carrots, peppers, strawberries, green beans, and things for salads, but there are lots of wild boars all around and they steal the food.

I’ve never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.

I don’t want to become a superstar and not see my family anymore.

I don’t represent myself as a star, but an actor who wants to make movies.

I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things – in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.