Emmanuelle Beart Quotes
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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.
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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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I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.
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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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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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My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.
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My body is an instrument for me to use.
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The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.
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I don't give a damn about Hollywood.
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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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You may think of me as an object of desire and I'm going to tell you that I can be in front of you naked and not be erotic.
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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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It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema.