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" I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love. "
Emmanuelle Beart
Love
Acting
Without
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" Of course I am political. You 'ave to be don't you? Every day it is about your future, your right to that future. 'Ow can people ignore this? We 'ave to leave a good world for our children, n'est-ce pas? "
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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 dream about singing. I would love to sing and write. "
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" I'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non. "
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" I don't give a damn about Hollywood. "
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" I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else. "
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" After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie. "
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" 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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" 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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" I wouldn't say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn't right at school. "
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Rebel
Certainly
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" I feel better in my body now than when I was 20. Why not? "
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Better
Feel
" 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. "
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Feet
Rest
" 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
" 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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Sometimes
Right
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" 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. "
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Think
Me
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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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Truth
Success
Me
" My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France. "
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Me
School
" When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it's like really making love. "
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Playing
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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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American
Play
Language
" 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
Happy
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" 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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Thought
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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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" There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior. "
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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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" 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. "
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Three
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" Sometimes you feel more naked when you're totally dressed than the other way around. "
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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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" When you are happy and in love and when you have children, then maybe you are beautiful. "
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Love
" 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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