Mathieu Amalric

Birthday: 25 October 1965, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Height: 168 cm

Mathieu Amalric was born on October 25, 1965 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He is an actor and director, known for The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Le scaphandre et le papillon (2007) and Quantum of Solace (2008).

If you love movies, then you love America.

There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of de...Show more »

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

Cannes is a circus, so you have to have fun with it. Everything suddenly becomes funny. And the prom...Show more »

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. Show less «

Acting is about animality. It's great to be allowed to be animal. But I feel more alive as a directo...Show more »

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. Show less «

I keep meeting directors that are so irresistible. I only do irresistible films, because I don't nee...Show more »

I keep meeting directors that are so irresistible. I only do irresistible films, because I don't need to act to feel myself alive. Show less «

I don't want to be a star!

Being an actor only came about because Arnaud Desplechin, the guy who did 'Kings and Queen', had thi...Show more »

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! Show less «

I'm always intrigued when you are travelling through a place and there is somebody who has lived the...Show more »

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. Show less «

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

If you approach Cannes with a sense of humor, nothing is that bad. You have to take it for what it i...Show more »

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. Show less «

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

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

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

Spending two days in a hotel doing interviews is not my goal. No, I could be with my kids. I could b...Show more »

Spending two days in a hotel doing interviews is not my goal. No, I could be with my kids. I could be making love. That's real life. Surprising my girlfriend, going to Lisbon for two days, you know, that's life. But I couldn't resist it. My two boys, who are 8 and 10 - I can't tell them one day that I refused to be the villain in a Bond movie. Show less «

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

Mathieu Amalric

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