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" 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. "

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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. "

Emmanuelle Beart

Man

Live

Fight

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes you feel more naked when you're totally dressed than the other way around. "

" My body is an instrument for me to use. "

Emmanuelle Beart

Instrument

Body

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

Emmanuelle Beart

Because

School

" 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 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. "

" 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

Think

I Can

" 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. "

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

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

" 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

Truth

Success

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

Emmanuelle Beart

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