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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.
Emmanuelle Beart
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I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.
Emmanuelle Beart
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After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.
Emmanuelle Beart
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I have never had so much fun as in Montreal. I taught the kids French, I baby-sat, I went to school, I was a receptionist at a hairdresser's, I danced and drank all night. I found that the more you do, the more you have time to do... it's weird, non?
Emmanuelle Beart
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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.
Emmanuelle Beart
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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?
Emmanuelle Beart
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I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else.
Emmanuelle Beart
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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.
Emmanuelle Beart
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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
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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
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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.
Emmanuelle Beart
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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
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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.
Emmanuelle Beart
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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.
Emmanuelle Beart
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The press follow me. I sue them. That's the deal.
Emmanuelle Beart
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There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.
Emmanuelle Beart
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When you are happy and in love and when you have children, then maybe you are beautiful.
Emmanuelle Beart
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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.
Emmanuelle Beart
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I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.
Emmanuelle Beart
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I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.
Emmanuelle Beart
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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
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Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.
Emmanuelle Beart
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Sometimes you feel more naked when you're totally dressed than the other way around.
Emmanuelle Beart
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Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside.
Emmanuelle Beart
