Isabelle Huppert Quotes

I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it. But you look at the project and think, 'Gee, there are a lot of good directors who could do that.' I'd like to do something only I can do.

I choose roles according to my sensibilities.

The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.

I don't write anything if I'm not agreeable and liking it. I'm not one of these slavers who wads up paper. It comes or it doesn't.

I don't plan my roles or my films.

One of my life philosophies is that you have a choice to make when you're doing something creative. You can be cheesy... or you can be lame.

I regard office as not an end but an opportunity.

I just make films that attract me.

People sometimes say, 'Why do you choose a part?' and sometimes it's not that I chose it but that that was the one that came along.

I'm in that lucky percentile where I can worry about how I want to shape my career. That's a wonderful place to be.

I don't really know how to build a career or what to do. But I have the instinct to keep doing different things so people can see different things.

There's not millions of dollars riding behind something - so I think a lot of people took chances on me and cast me in roles in Chicago that I never would have gotten cast in possibly if I had come to New York right away. I got to be the not-your-typical-choice for a role.

I'm not exactly in a position where I get to be super-picky about the roles I get. But I would also never want to be a part of something that I think is poor in taste or doesn't align with what I believe in.

I have never had a plan when it comes to my career: America came to me with an opportunity.

Everyone needs an opportunity in life. I was given an opportunity as a manager, and you try and take it.

When you have an opportunity to do a series, you want to stick it out. You don't know when you're going to get another one like that again.

I thought my first few jobs would just be off, off, off, off, off broadway. And by chance and how the world works, I ended up on a TV show instead.

I'm really grateful for every opportunity I have received because each job has opened new doors to levels that wouldn't have been possible without the previous one. So in that sense, every job has been career defining.

If I like a script, I will definitely pick films of different genres, but I won't do something just for the sake of it.

Mentors and sponsors, particularly in the early stages of my career, were invaluable to me because they encouraged me to raise my hand and take opportunities to build my capabilities.

I want to have a long career. But that's based on wanting people to buy into my voice and not into a fabricated image.

If I will do a movie in the future, I will take it up only when I'm 100 percent sure about it.

I was lucky to be passionate about a field that was full of opportunity.

I always said the whole time all I was waiting for was an opportunity and a chance to get my foot in the door.

I am keen to do quality films; it is not quantity that I am looking at.