Isabelle Huppert Quotes

Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.

Well, my brother started acting before I did.

Well, you're in a theater and it's 24 shots a second, your face, your body, your voice, and it's your craft, the way you earn your living, and it's indelible. It's not like writing a script - I write as well - I can't do another draft, it's done.

Acting is not a science. Anybody who believes that their success exists in relation to their goals is deluding themselves; unless you think of a career in terms of financial goals. I have nothing against Tom Cruise, but he must have a large capacity to deal with the business side of movies.

Through all of this lovely interviewing, and nice things people say, and the rest of it, I have learned that I am an actor. That is my profession. That is my job. That is how I make a living. So I am just out there making a living.

I didn't set out wanting to be an actress. That's not what I did. I didn't go to class striving to become an actress. I just basically - honestly, I didn't have anything else going.

I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

I was born a character actor.

I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else.

I'm not entirely comfortable saying I'm an actor, because it seems like a very weird, almost dorky thing to say you are.

I'm a rapper trying to be an actor.

Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have to study styles and techniques.

I definitely want to continue acting and performing.

I'm not really an actress type. I'm an entertainer.

There's an art to being a good actor, there's an art to being a celebrity, and there's an art to longevity.

When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can.

I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with being a minister's son. And now I know I'm pretty darn good at playing a woman too.

It seems like a really fun way to make a living, but I'm truly terrible at acting.

I want to walk the bases - I want to do all the actor-y stuff.

All I really wanted to be was a working actor.

Even with limited success as an actor, you usually have a more interesting life than in many other professions, so it's not an unreasonable choice.

I'd always wanted to try my hand at every bit of the acting field.

As far as I'm concerned... there's a side to an actor that wants to go on and play a thousand different roles.

Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to be a performer - whether it was acting or singing or whatever.