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