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" I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom. "
Emmanuelle Beart
Kingdom
Better
Stay
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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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Director
Eyes
" My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance. "
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Me
Looks
Anything
" 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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Me
My Life
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" When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it's like really making love. "
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I Can
Playing
Like
" I have no TV, thank God. I haven't heard anything about Tom Cruise, except that he had a baby, I think. "
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Thank God
Baby
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" 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. "
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Losing
Someone
Desire
" 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
" I'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non. "
Emmanuelle Beart
Best
Life
Private Life
" I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love. "
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Love
Acting
Without
" 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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I Am
Earn
Work
" 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
American
" 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. "
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Back
You
Yourself
" 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
I Can
" 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. "
Emmanuelle Beart
Frustration
Yourself
Work
" 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. "
Emmanuelle Beart
Liked
Mouth
Had
" I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write. "
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Love
About
Dream
" After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie. "
Emmanuelle Beart
Great
Movie
American
" 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. "
Emmanuelle Beart
Strength
Three
Life
" It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema. "
Emmanuelle Beart
Grow
You
Woman
" 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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Circus
Want
Little
" 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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Day
Children
World
" 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
Face
Naked
" When you are happy and in love and when you have children, then maybe you are beautiful. "
Emmanuelle Beart
Children
Beautiful
Love
" 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. "
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Harmony
Beautiful
You
" 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
" 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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Know
Movies
Music
" 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
School
Night
" My body is an instrument for me to use. "
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Me
Instrument
Body
" I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home. "
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Voyage
Stay
Mean
" 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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