Emmanuelle Beart quotes - page 2

I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing. But that's the way I'm doing it. (Emmanuelle Beart)
I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them. View quote
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I was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers. View quote
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The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous. View quote
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My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance. View quote
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My looks haven't prevented me from playing prostitutes or people broken by life. But when they need a token blonde with big breasts, that's OK, too. It's part of the game. View quote
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My body is an instrument for me to use. View quote
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The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity. View quote
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I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition. View quote
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I had my mouth done when I was 27. It was a botched job. Obviously, if I had liked my mouth I wouldn't have had it re-done. View quote
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I've just done a film in the United States. It's a thriller called 'A Crime', with Harvey Keitel, we play against each other, and it's so great to play in another language. But I'm definitely not American. (Emmanuelle Beart)
Sometimes you feel more naked when you're totally dressed than the other way around. View quote
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I don't give a damn about Hollywood. View quote
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I don't see my old films, but I think of the characters I played as friends, like the women I meet in my life who made strong impressions on me. I remember them and they are part of me. View quote
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After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie. View quote
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For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth. View quote
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I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else. View quote
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Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening. View quote
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I keep reading that I'm cold. But I'm not, I'm shy. And I play a lot of women of fire and sexuality like an animal - so I'm cold on one side and fiery on the other. View quote
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If I have one thing perfect, it's my eyebrows. And my feet. I love my feet. They're like Japanese feet. The rest I would like to hide. Especially my freckles. I feel ridiculous. View quote
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It is not easy to age in harmony with one's roles. (Emmanuelle Beart)
Very often with an American movie, the end is very happy and you just feel good when you go out. When you go to a French movie, it's kind of like, oh!, and you can't go out; you're stuck in your chair. It goes so deeply inside of the heart. View quote
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I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student. View quote
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I have no TV, thank God. I haven't heard anything about Tom Cruise, except that he had a baby, I think. View quote
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Of course I am political. You 'ave to be don't you? Every day it is about your future, your right to that future. 'Ow can people ignore this? We 'ave to leave a good world for our children, n'est-ce pas? View quote
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Emmanuelle Beart

Emmanuelle Beart - Image
Photo: Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0
Occupation: French Actress
Born: August 14, 1963
Quotes count: 50

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