Amalric Mathieu Quotes & Sayings

In 2002, a Scottish journalist, during a dinner meant to be private, absolutely wanted me to react to Stephen Hawking's comments. I said one shouldn't pay too much attention to what Hawking was saying because he was a celebrity but not a specialist of elementary particle theory. — Peter Higgs

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

By the time I was twelve, I had progressed from "If he doesn't get better, he may have to be institutionalized" to "He's a weird, screwed-up kid. — John Elder Robison

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

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

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

There's no way to prove that there is no God. You just have to take it on faith. — Woody Allen

[The Rule:] Just do the next thing you're reasonably certain Jesus wants you to do. — Clare De Graaf

I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up. — Abbi Jacobson

The implementation of a set of interpersonal processes that lead to the coachee experiencing enhanced physical health (physiological), engagement in effective, purposeful actions (behavioural), the possession of sufficient attentional control to process information effectively (cognitive), an ability to encounter a wider range of emotional states with equanimity and poise (affective), and the conscious linking of personal goals and commitments to important beliefs, core values and/or developing interests (meaning)'. — Christian Van Nieuwerburgh

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

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

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

Great God! I'd rather be a Pagan.... — William Wordsworth

Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or that humans are causing it. Widely known as climate change "skeptics" or "deniers," these individuals are generally not climate scientists and do not debate the science with the climate scientists ... — David Suzuki

I don't want to be a star! — Mathieu Amalric

I hated [the commercial art studio] because advertising is telling lies, basically, making crap goods look terrific, and I felt I was so privileged to be an artist anyway, why was I prostituting myself on doing this sort of rubbish? So when I left there, I suppose after about five or six years, I then went to the other extreme and started telling to me what seemed to me at the time the ultra-truth about the world around me - social life, and the politicians, and so forth. — Gerald Scarfe

The reason so many of us struggle so intensely with adversity is that we have yet to adopt God's perspective and priorities. — Charles Stanley

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

If you love movies, then you love America. — Mathieu Amalric

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

A puritan may go to his brown-bread crust with as gross an appetite as ever an alderman to his turtle. Not that food which entereth into the mouth defileth a man, but the appetite with which it is eaten. It is neither the quality nor the quantity, but the devotion to sensual savors; — Henry David Thoreau

Remember, disappointment is cured by revamped expectations. — Max Lucado

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

Respect the dead, learn from them, do not follow or avenge them. — Evan Meekins

You know, it's absolutely connected to The Mollusk in that, it's what we're writing after The Mollusk. A lot of this stuff reminds me of things on The Mollusk. — Gene Ween

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

We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church. — Johnny Hunt