Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.
- Isabelle Huppert Quote

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.
- Isabelle Huppert Quote

But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing.
- Isabelle Huppert Quote

But theatre is always a difficult experience.
- Isabelle Huppert Quote

Even for the most difficult scenes, and there are difficult scenes in the film, and because Michael Haneke is such a great film-maker - I think a great film-maker is not only being inspired, but how to do it, how to make it as real as possible, knowing that it's not real.
- Isabelle Huppert Quote

For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.
- Isabelle Huppert Quote

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!
- Isabelle Huppert Quote

Going through this musical experience really helped us to understand the core of the film.
- Isabelle Huppert Quote

I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.
- Isabelle Huppert Quote

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.
- Isabelle Huppert Quote

I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress.
- Isabelle Huppert Quote

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.
- Isabelle Huppert Quote

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.
- Isabelle Huppert Quote

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

Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.
- Isabelle Huppert Quote

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.
- Isabelle Huppert Quote

When you come to do the film, it is not the time to wonder why you do it. It's just how to do it.
- Isabelle Huppert Quote