Quotes By Emmanuelle Beart

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I feel better in my body now than when I was 20. Why not?

I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else.

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

I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.

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

I wouldn't say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn't right at school.

I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

When you are happy and in love and when you have children, then maybe you are beautiful.

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

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.