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Isabelle Huppert

"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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"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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"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."

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"Tis God gives skill but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio."

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"Certain abilities in you sometimes yearn to be expressed."

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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."
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"My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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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"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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"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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"For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music."
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"Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons why you want to do the film, then it's more a matter of how to do things."
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