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

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"I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me."

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"I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation."

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"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."

Being

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

Father

"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."

Beginning

"But it wasn't just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was also a way of approaching the soul of the film, because the film is really about the soul of Schubert and the soul of Bach."

Music

"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."

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"But theatre is always a difficult experience."

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"I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work."

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"Going through this musical experience really helped us to understand the core of the film."

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"I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything."

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"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."

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