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" I don't give a damn about Hollywood. "
Emmanuelle Beart
Damn
Give
Hollywood
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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. "
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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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" 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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" The press follow me. I sue them. That's the deal. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France. "
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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 sexuality like an animal - so I'm cold on one side and fiery on the other. "
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" 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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" I wouldn't say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn't right at school. "
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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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" 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. "
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" My body is an instrument for me to use. "
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" I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home. "
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" I feel better in my body now than when I was 20. Why not? "
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" The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity. "
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" 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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Time
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Night
" 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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Heart
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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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Kingdom
Better
Stay
" 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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Face
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" 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. "
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" Sometimes you feel more naked when you're totally dressed than the other way around. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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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