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

Emmanuelle Beart

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" I was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers. "

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

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

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

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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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" 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. "

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