Isabelle Huppert Quotes

I change the language with which I use my voice. In opera, I know I have an orchestra behind me; I have to communicate to people very far from me.

I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact with the audience. We love the fact that the audience will change us. The way the audience responds makes us change our performance.

I tend to make bolder and more interesting choices after I've done theatre.

I'm doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I'll put whatever up there for the visible eye.

I think that it's crucial. I think that playing live, if you want to be an artist - that's what artists do.

In theatre, after the curtain rises, it's all about me. I can either elevate myself with my performance or be mediocre.

Whether the theater is 1,000 seats or 500 seats or 200 seats, you have to make sure the person in the back of the theater can hear you and understand you. So there's a lot of articulation and a lot of voice in theater that really just isn't necessary when it comes to dealing with the camera.

The goal, when you're playing a character that's super beloved from a movie, is to honor what the actor before you has done and then really just expand, which is what you get to do in a musical because you have songs, choreography, and everything is happening in real time.

I believe in entertaining the audiences with whatever I do.

When I'm singing my songs on stage, I feel like I'm doing a rock show, even though I don't think all my music is particularly straight up rock.

The thing about doing gigs is you make music, and then it is gone and that is being watched by thousands of people.

I know how to do music, no matter how weird I look on stage with the face paint, mask, and hospital scrubs.

Drag was not only my introduction to womanhood, but my introduction to entertainment. It was the first time I realized that I could move a crowd.

I consider each performance to be an intimate conversation between me and the audience members.

I love making music, and performing, that will always be there.

It's about how you're using the space. That's what makes live music.

It took a while of performing and pushing the boundaries and starting to involve the audience to feel comfortable.

I now do my own cabaret act, singing and telling stories about my life.

With acting, the response is usually delayed and takes time, unlike with singing, from where I instantly get fans' response.

Things like dressing, postures and gestures are under the artiste's control. If I'm performing, my safety is primarily my responsibilityso I shouldn't end up doing anything that would infuriate the audience.

Acting is like lifting a 400-pound feather. It's a feather, how hard could it be? And yet, you go to lift it and it's heavy. For that reason, I love it, because it's very hard and difficult and challenging and obviously I want to learn more.

I love to create something new every night onstage; that makes a big difference.

I just wanted to perform all day, every day.

You can call us what you want, but at the end of the day, we're entertainers.

At heart, I was always a performer, not a competitor.