Top 53 Quotes & Sayings by Emmanuelle Beart
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French actress Emmanuelle Beart.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
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.
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.
The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.
My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.
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.
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?
Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening.
Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.
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 don't give a damn about Hollywood.
I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else.
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.
I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.
I feel better in my body now than when I was 20. Why not?
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 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.
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 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.
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?
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.
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 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.
The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.
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.
Sometimes you feel more naked when you're totally dressed than the other way around.
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.
I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.
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.
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.
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.
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.
After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.
The press follow me. I sue them. That's the deal.
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.
My body is an instrument for me to use.
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.
There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior.
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.
I have no TV, thank God. I haven't heard anything about Tom Cruise, except that he had a baby, I think.
It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema.
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.
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.
My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.
I wouldn't say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn't right at school.
When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it's like really making love.
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.
It is not easy to age in harmony with one's roles.
I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.
When you are happy and in love and when you have children, then maybe you are beautiful.
I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.
I'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non.
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.
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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