Top 19 Quotes & Sayings by Mathieu Amalric

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French actor Mathieu Amalric.

Last updated on September 19, 2024.

Mathieu Amalric is a French actor and filmmaker. He is best known internationally for his roles in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace, in which he played the lead villain, Steven Spielberg's Munich, Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel and The French Dispatch, and for his lead performance in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, for which he drew critical acclaim. He has also won several César Awards and the Lumières Award.

French - Actor | Born: October 25, 1965

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

Mathieu Amalric

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

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

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

I don't want to be a star!

Mathieu Amalric

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

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

Mathieu Amalric

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

Mathieu Amalric

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

Mathieu Amalric

If you love movies, then you love America.

Mathieu Amalric

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

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

Mathieu Amalric

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

Mathieu Amalric

Cannes is a circus, so you have to have fun with it. Everything suddenly becomes funny. And the promotion of a movie - that's where you really need to be a good actor. You need to make journalists believe that what you're saying is just for them and you've never said it before, even when you're talking about the same film over and over again.

Mathieu Amalric

Im 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

My life as an actor has submerged me completely because I dont know why.

Mathieu Amalric

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

Mathieu Amalric

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