Emmanuelle Beart Quotes

I'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non.
Emmanuelle Beart

Life, Best, Trying

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

Great, Done, Play

If a man or woman has something redone it is because he or she can no longer live with that part of their body, it is no longer bearable. Either they get help and find the strength to fight or they proceed with the act.
Emmanuelle Beart

Strength, Live, Fight

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.
Emmanuelle Beart

Love, Perfect, Rest

In Hollywood there's no real material. They would send me stuff, but I hadn't even seen the director. If I don't see the director's eyes, I'm not going. I'm not even going to pack my bags.
Emmanuelle Beart

Real, Eyes, Stuff

It is not easy to age in harmony with one's roles.
Emmanuelle Beart

Age, Easy, Harmony

It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema.
Emmanuelle Beart

Business, Woman, Old

My body is an instrument for me to use.
Emmanuelle Beart

Body, Instrument

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.
Emmanuelle Beart

Life, Game, Big

My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.
Emmanuelle Beart

Nothing, Mean, Looks

My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.
Emmanuelle Beart

School, Parents, Getting

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?
Emmanuelle Beart

Good, Future, Children

Often, when you see yourself on the screen, you feel like a sweater that's been put through the washing machine. You have the impression of having done something full and luminous, and suddenly, when you see it on the screen, it's turned back into a tiny little thing.
Emmanuelle Beart

Yourself, Done, Through

Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.
Emmanuelle Beart

Life, Eyes, Once

Sometimes you feel more naked when you're totally dressed than the other way around.
Emmanuelle Beart

Sometimes, Around, Naked

The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.
Emmanuelle Beart

Thought, Body, Face

The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.
Emmanuelle Beart

Creativity, Artist, Body

The press follow me. I sue them. That's the deal.
Emmanuelle Beart

Deal, Follow, Press

There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior.
Emmanuelle Beart

Person, Play, Rather

There is a phrase in French, which means 'to miss.' To pass by. To not be able to stop. You love someone and someone loves you, but it just can't work for different reasons.
Emmanuelle Beart

Love, Work, Someone

Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening.
Emmanuelle Beart

Today, Soul, Against

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.
Emmanuelle Beart

Good, Happy, Heart

We were raised without movies, theater or music. We had only nature, the hills, the trees. When I got on the set of 'Manon,' I wasn't star-struck because I didn't know what a star was.
Emmanuelle Beart

Music, Nature, Movies

We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.
Emmanuelle Beart

Fear, Someone, Losing

When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it's like really making love.
Emmanuelle Beart

Love, Making, Body

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Nationality: French

Born: August 14, 1965

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