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All Quotes by author - Emmanuelle Beart

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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 don't give a damn about Hollywood. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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? "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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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