Mathieu Amalric Quotes

France, Actor
October 25, 1965

Mathieu Amalric (French pronunciation: [ma.tjø a.mal.ʁik] (About this sound listen); born 25 October 1965) is a French actor and filmmaker. He is best known internationally for his performance as the lead villain in Bond film Quantum of Solace, his performance in Steven Spielberg's Munich, and for his role in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, for which he drew critical acclaim. He has also won several César Awards and the Lumières Award.

Also known as Film Maker

I don't want to be a star!

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

Mathieu Amalric
- Life
- Why

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
- Great
- Morning
- Animal
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
- Good
- Believe
- Movie
The body is something absolutely miraculous. It's amazing, the five senses.

Mathieu Amalric
- Amazing
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
- Done
- Job
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
- Bad
- Silly
There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness.

Mathieu Amalric
- Feeling
- Sad
- Romantic

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
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
If you love movies, then you love America.

Mathieu Amalric
- America
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
- Guy
Sometimes with anger you can be much more dangerous than with skill.

Mathieu Amalric