Emmanuelle Beart Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I wouldn't say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn't right at school.
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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.
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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.
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My body is an instrument for me to use.
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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.
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I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors, so I'm obliged to see them.
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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.
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My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.
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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.
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I feel better in my body now than when I was 20. Why not?
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I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.
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Sometimes you feel more naked when you're totally dressed than the other way around.
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I don't give a damn about Hollywood.
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There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior.
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The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.
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I'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non.
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I am an actress, I earn money, I am well-known. I don't think it is altruism to become engaged in humanitarian work. It's the least one can do.
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My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.
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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.
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I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.
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It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema.