Mathieu Amalric Quotes

#1. Successful people are inspired people; they are unwilling to accept the status quo.

Asa Don Brown

#2. If you approach Cannes with a sense of humor, nothing is that bad. You have to take it for what it is; otherwise, it's silly.

Mathieu Amalric

#3. as a society we are trained to not question the status quo.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#4. Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined I'd be acting in movies.

Mathieu Amalric

#5. I keep meeting directors that are so irresistible. I only do irresistible films, because I don't need to act to feel myself alive.

Mathieu Amalric

#6. I'm always intrigued when you are travelling through a place and there is somebody who has lived there and done the same job for years.

Mathieu Amalric

#7. She is brave and strong and broken all at once. As she speaks it is as if her existence is no longer real to her in itself, more like a living epitaph to a life that was.

Anna Funder

#8. Sometimes with anger you can be much more dangerous than with skill.

Mathieu Amalric

#9. I first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director's assistant, an editor.

Mathieu Amalric

#10. The body is something absolutely miraculous. It's amazing, the five senses.

Mathieu Amalric

#11. I also mistakenly believed that the scariest stories came from imagination, not real life.

Jodi Picoult

#12. Cyberspace is the human transition into a mathematical super space where we as a collectivity become optionally a single point of view.

Terence McKenna

#13. However it may prove, one must tread the path that need chooses!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#14. Demanding historical (or scientific) veracity as a prerequisite for truth is another kind of tunnel vision. To do so is to mistake poetry for prose.

Charles Kimball

#15. You're not a real Texan till you've been kicked out of every decent state in America.

Joe Bob Briggs

#16. My life as an actor has submerged me completely because I don't know why.

Mathieu Amalric

#17. I don't want to be a star!

Mathieu Amalric

#18. Being an actor only came about because Arnaud Desplechin, the guy who did 'Kings and Queen', had this curious idea to think that I could be an actor, but I had never acted before, and I was supposed to direct my own film!

Mathieu Amalric

#19. What keeps me interested
and it always does
is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?

Bret Easton Ellis

#20. Acting is about animality. It's great to be allowed to be animal. But I feel more alive as a director. Every morning, I have to write.

Mathieu Amalric

#21. There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness.

Mathieu Amalric

#22. You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play it.

Samantha Morton

#23. I directed three films and each time [I act] I hope it's the last time so I have time to do my film [directing].

Mathieu Amalric

#24. If you love movies, then you love America.

Mathieu Amalric

#25. That's not a reason to give your life to God.

C.D. Reiss

#26. Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.

Fran Drescher

#27. Big actors want to work in television because they see it as being new and different.

Nick Willing