Emmanuelle Beart Quotes

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Emmanuelle Beart

Profession : Actress

Birth : August 14, 1965

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

Emmanuelle Beart

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

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.

Emmanuelle Beart

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

Emmanuelle Beart

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

Emmanuelle Beart

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.

Emmanuelle Beart

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.

Emmanuelle Beart

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.

Emmanuelle Beart

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.

Emmanuelle Beart

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.

Emmanuelle Beart

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.

Emmanuelle Beart

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.

Emmanuelle Beart

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

Emmanuelle Beart

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.

Emmanuelle Beart

I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.

Emmanuelle Beart

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 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

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.

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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.

Emmanuelle Beart

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

Emmanuelle Beart