Emmanuelle Beart Quotes

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

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• I don’t give a damn about Hollywood.

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

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

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

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

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

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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 age in harmony with one’s roles.

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• My body is an instrument for me to use.

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

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• The body, in ‘La Belle Noiseuse,’ was the source of the artist’s creativity.

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

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Emmanuelle Beart (52)

Birth:	14th August, 1963
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Actress

About

Emmanuelle Beart was born in Gassin, France. She is a French film actress. An eight-time César Award nominee, she won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1986 film Manon des Sources. Her other film roles include La Belle Noiseuse, A Heart in Winter, Nelly and Mr. Arnaud, Mission: Impossible and 8 Women. She is also known for her social activism. She is an ambassador for UNICEF.

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