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" My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance. "
Emmanuelle Beart
Me
Looks
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" I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom. "
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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 give a damn about Hollywood. "
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" 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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" 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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" When you are happy and in love and when you have children, then maybe you are beautiful. "
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" The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity. "
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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 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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" 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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" I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home. "
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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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" Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening. "
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" I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love. "
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" My body is an instrument for me to use. "
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" 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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" 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 feel better in my body now than when I was 20. Why not? "
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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'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non. "
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Life
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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 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. "
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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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" 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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" After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie. "
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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. "
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" It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema. "
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" 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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