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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. "
Emmanuelle Beart
Think
Me
I Can
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" My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France. "
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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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" 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 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 give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else. "
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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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" 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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" I wouldn't say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn't right at school. "
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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 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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