Jean Dujardin Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Jean Dujardin
I watched a lot of Douglas Fairbanks movies. He always played the same role with a mustache. Zorro had a mustache. The Musketeer had a mustache. Tarzan had a mustache. — Jean Dujardin
Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made. — Jean Dujardin
In France, I have lots of opportunities. Maybe now I'll be offered films in America. It's the encounter, with the director and the story that counts. — Jean Dujardin
I recycle. I have a house in the south of France and I have a small garden. My name is Dujardin - 'from the garden.' I grow carrots, peppers, strawberries, green beans, and things for salads, but there are lots of wild boars all around and they steal the food. — Jean Dujardin
I don't really know Hollywood, but living and shooting in L.A. was very motivating, inspiring. The lights, the extras, their American faces, the energy, the Orpheum Theatre. It was all very inspiring. — Jean Dujardin
It's quite pretentious, really, isn't it? The notion the audience is going to be interested in you for an hour and a half. Think too much about that and anxiety takes over. — Jean Dujardin
OSS 117 and maybe Un Balcon Sur La Mer directed by Nicole Garcia. It's a typical French movie with typical French themes with French actors, a French director ... — Jean Dujardin
I can't speak American dog very well. There was a lot of improvisation with Uggie - like when I put the dog on the table or sometimes I follow him, sometimes he follows me. I had a lot of treats in my pocket. We worked with Omar Von Muller, the dog trainer. It was very easy because it was a big movie. — Jean Dujardin
I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation. — Jean Dujardin
It was actually quite easy to work with Uggie, because he's a really well trained dog. Very talented. I just had to follow him a little bit, improvise a little bit. Sometimes he'd follow me. Especially because of the sausages I had in my pocket. — Jean Dujardin
I love dancing in general and making girls dance. My generation doesn't do it enough. — Jean Dujardin
This is a universal, unique movie, it has potential to cross barriers. But we never thought about that on set, when we were doing the film. We knew that in making a silent movie, we were doing something a little bit under the wire, a bit interdit. It's a pastiche, but for the French taste, you would have thought. — Jean Dujardin
I watched Gene Kelly for his smile, for his energy. Vittorio Gassman for his movement. Clark Gable for his mustache. And I watched Lassie who was happy as a dog. — Jean Dujardin
I don't like having too many projects in the pipeline. I like to focus on what's at hand. — Jean Dujardin
I'm not an American actor. I'm a French actor. I'll continue in France. If I could make another silent movie in America, I'd like to! — Jean Dujardin
For you, it's a silent movie. For us, it's a talking movie because we had lines on set. There's a lot of noise on set and music. We spoke in English, in French, in gibberish, but it was very alive. The challenge was tap dancing. — Jean Dujardin
What matters to me is my own estimation, and I'm very tough on myself. I need to be proud of what I've done and I work hard for it. I had a very Christian upbringing ... lots of guilt. A good thing, It keeps you sane. — Jean Dujardin
In many cases for an actor it's a comfortable position to be in. But it's harder to fail as a director. — Jean Dujardin
I think I'm more demanding than any wife. — Jean Dujardin
I discovered that silent film is almost an advantage. You just have to think of the feeling for it to show. No lines pollute it. It doesn't take much - a gaze, an eyelash flutter - for the emotion to be vivid. — Jean Dujardin
It was always about the story rather than the character. — Jean Dujardin
I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished. — Jean Dujardin
The energy is important. It's the rebirth of the character. Even more than the sentence itself, it's the energy that has to come through. It's really 'Thank you! — Jean Dujardin
I never think of the completed film, rather the adventure of what I'm about to live. — Jean Dujardin
For me, I loved it. I only want to make silent movies now. — Jean Dujardin
I don't represent myself as a star, but an actor who wants to make movies. — Jean Dujardin
I feel very at home in an empty church. I feel the most protected. It's very mystical. — Jean Dujardin
As an actor and director, you have to take risks, even though I don't like saying that word. You can make a mistake. — Jean Dujardin
I'm happiest on set because I'm not myself. I'm someone else. The moustache, the dinner jacket. It's not me. You're always this sort of double, and it's liberating. Imagine being stuck with yourself ... all those doubts. — Jean Dujardin
I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming. — Jean Dujardin
I guess we're all lucky to be in this profession where you can be someone else for two or three months on a film shoot. I find it restful. Vachement agreable. — Jean Dujardin
I don't care about my image. — Jean Dujardin
I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person. — Jean Dujardin
I don't want everyone to like me, and I don't choose who likes me. You have to give them the choice, give them the option. — Jean Dujardin