Mathieu Amalric Quotes

Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I'm not doing any of that right now. I don't have any axes to grind.

There is no business like show business, Irving Berlin once proclaimed, and thirty years ago he may have been right, but not anymore. Nowadays almost every business is like show business, including politics, which has become more like show business than show business is

Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.

I'm a reasonably good actor, and I'm an average naval officer. Ha, ha!

You can't just be a musician; you have to be an entertainer and perform and act just to hit the bar.

As an entertainer, my job is to help people have fun.

I'm better than P. T. Barnum and Colonel Parker put together.

I love every aspect of show business and that includes both the show part of it and the business part of it.

Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something - this side of it, if you like, doing interviews - is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.

It's show business. No show, no business.

I got irritated with people asking us the same questions. Like, 'Are you a real band?' Journalists wanted to slay us, tried to cut us down, and I just started caring less and less about doing interviews. With Facebook and Instagram, you kind of don't need to anyway. But now and again, we'll do something when there's new information to share.

Drama sells.

I'm doing TV interviews, I'm doing many, many print interviews.

A lot of celebrities promote their films to entertainment reporters and feel like they need to entertain them.

I was always sort of a ham as a kid, just always wanting to entertain and to get people to laugh.

For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that's entertaining for an audience, and it would be lovely if a magician was fooled as well.

It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

I really love being onstage - that's kind of home base - but I love the camera, too. I love it all.

It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good.

It used to be that you could have fun with interviews with the foreign press, knowing that nothing you said would make it back to any voters until long after the election was over, if ever.

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

In the theatre, we're all charlatans and liars and scavengers and fly-by-nights.

It is first and foremost very hard work! But I have a wonderful part and I do have fun. The company, cast and crew of 'Passions' are wonderful to work with.