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" 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. "

Emmanuelle Beart

Men

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" 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 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. "

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

Emmanuelle Beart

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School

" 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 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. "

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

" 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

" The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous. "

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

" The press follow me. I sue them. That's the deal. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I wouldn't say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn't right at school. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" When you are happy and in love and when you have children, then maybe you are beautiful. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Emmanuelle Beart

My Life

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