Emmanuelle Beart Quotes

• My body is an instrument for me to use.

  Emmanuelle Beart

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

  Emmanuelle Beart

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

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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.

  Emmanuelle Beart

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  Tags in Hollywood, Stuff

• If I have one thing perfect, it’s my eyebrows. And my feet. I love my feet. They’re like Japanese feet. The rest I would like to hide. Especially my freckles. I feel ridiculous.

  Emmanuelle Beart

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• If a man or woman has something redone it is because he or she can no longer live with that part of their body, it is no longer bearable. Either they get help and find the strength to fight or they proceed with the act.

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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.

  Emmanuelle Beart

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  Tags in United States, Film

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

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  Tags in Private

• I’m less desperate now to express what’s inside me, that’s true – I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.

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  Tags in Desperate, Student

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

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• 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.

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  Tags in Self, Hated, School

• I think my best work has been in France with great men. It’s been my great fortune to work with really great men – with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.

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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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  Tags in Kingdom, Queen

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

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• 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.

  Emmanuelle Beart

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• I keep reading that I’m cold. But I’m not, I’m shy. And I play a lot of women of fire and s*xuality like an animal – so I’m cold on one side and fiery on the other.

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  Tags in Women, Comparison

• I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don’t know if what I’m doing is the right thing. But that’s the way I’m doing it.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Topics in Children, Life

• I have no TV, thank God. I haven’t heard anything about Tom Cruise, except that he had a baby, I think.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Topics in God

• I have never had so much fun as in Montreal. I taught the kids French, I baby-sat, I went to school, I was a receptionist at a hairdresser’s, I danced and drank all night. I found that the more you do, the more you have time to do… it’s weird, non?

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• 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.

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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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