Jean Dujardin quotes

Jean Dujardin is a French actor known for his versatile roles in cinema and television. He gained international fame for his performance in the silent film "The Artist," which won him an Academy Award. He continues to be celebrated for his charismatic presence and comedic talent. Here are 23 of his quotes:

I like simple things. I like being in my family in the South and playing petanque.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person.

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I love dancing in general and making girls dance. My generation doesn't do it enough.

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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.

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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.

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It was always about the story rather than the character.

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I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.

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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.

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I think I'm more demanding than any wife.

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I don't care about my image.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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