Emmanuelle Beart Quotes

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

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• When I’m playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it’s like really making love.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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?

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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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• 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

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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