Emmanuelle Beart Quotes

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

I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.

I don't give a damn about Hollywood.

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

Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

My body is an instrument for me to use.

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

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

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

I don't see my old films, but I think of the characters I played as friends, like the women I meet in my life who made strong impressions on me. I remember them and they are part of me.

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.

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.

I keep reading that I'm cold. But I'm not, I'm shy. And I play a lot of women of fire and sexuality like an animal - so I'm cold on one side and fiery on the other.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.