Quotes By Emmanuelle Beart

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

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.

When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it's like really making love.

I'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non.

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 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.

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.

The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.

I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else.

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.

I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.

My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.

Sometimes you feel more naked when you're totally dressed than the other way around.

I wouldn't say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn't right at school.

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.

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 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?

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?

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.

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 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.

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.

It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema.

My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.

I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.

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.

Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening.

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

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.

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.