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Quote by Michel Bouquet
J'aime que le personnage soit une surprise.
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The speaker likes a character whose nature or role is not revealed in advance. “A surprise” suggests that discovering the character should bring something unexpected, rather than confirming what the reader already assumes.
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- Institut national de l’audiovisuel (INA)
- Format
- Official Statement
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“If I had any ambition, it was to keep putting “actor” on my tax form.”
“Theater is the initial glamorizer of thought.”
Read quote“Sou actor desde 1856. Dizem que faço rir na comedia, chorar no drama e finjo de tenor nas operetas.”
“I meant to represent her, as a human being, loving virtue while enslaved by passion.”
“In my language I always say mintirho yaTHOOKવulula (a person’s deeds speak louder than their words).”
“U nas jest inaczej – aktor to człowiek, który ma swój normalny, przeciętny los, ale może wypowiedzieć to, czego słowa owej wewnętrznej treści nigdy nie wyrażą, stając twarzą w twarz do twarzy podobnej.”
“If it ain't on the page, it ain't on the stage. It's that simple.”
“모든 연기는 나로부터 시작된다고 생각한다.”
“Damn everything but the circus!”
“From the moment you get on a theater stage, from the moment you go up there, on this stage, you become a poem.”
After the Last Cue
When the theater’s sound system dies hours before opening night, seventeen-year-old Mara builds a new one from teacups, paper, thread, and trust.
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