Isabelle Huppert Quotes

That's the thing about acting is that it's reacting to what's going on around you.

Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.

I do my best creating on stage.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

I think acting is a gift.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small.

Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.

Theatre is really an actor's playground.

You can equate acting to a tennis game: When you're playing one of the best, you get better.

I love acting. I love play-acting. I love pretending. I love telling stories so whether they be comedic or serious or whatever, it doesn't really matter to me. I enjoy telling a good story. I have it all in me.

I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

I love theater. To have the people onstage right there, to be working in concert with other artists, this is a like a school of fish moving together.

The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.

Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

Acting is an art form. If you are not creating something that's unusual and informative and at least has the possibility of being illuminating, then you are not into it as an art form.

This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time.

I can't imagine doing anything without being an improviser. I can't imagine trying to write or act or direct without what improvising offers you.

Being on stage is not creating, it's re-creating.

Improv has been immensely beneficial to me as both an actor and a writer.

You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual.

All theater is dance.

All theater is unpredictable. That's the definition of theater.