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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. "
Emmanuelle Beart
Just
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else. "
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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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" It is not easy to age in harmony with one's roles. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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 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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" 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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" Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them. "
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" My body is an instrument for me to use. "
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" 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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" Sometimes you feel more naked when you're totally dressed than the other way around. "
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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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" I don't give a damn about Hollywood. "
Emmanuelle Beart
Damn
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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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" 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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" 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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" My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France. "
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" The press follow me. I sue them. That's the deal. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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 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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