Emmanuelle Beart Quotes

• 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.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Washing, Machine

• I keep reading that I’m cold. But I’m not, I’m shy. And I play a lot of women of fire and s*xuality like an animal – so I’m cold on one side and fiery on the other.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Comparison

• 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.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Topics in Children, Life

• 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

  Topics in Money, Work

  Tags in Actress

• 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.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Films, Impressions

• 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

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Directors

• 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.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Harmony

• 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.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Topics in Success, Truth

  Tags in Career

• 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

  Topics in Job

• 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

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Strength

• 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.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Hated, School

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Desperate, Student

• After 10 years of French torture – psychological torture – it’s great to do an American movie.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Movie

• I have no TV, thank God. I haven’t heard anything about Tom Cruise, except that he had a baby, I think.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Topics in God

• I am a voyager – and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Voyage

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

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Singing

• 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

  Topics in Ambition

• 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.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Body, Bearable

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

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Feel

• 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.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Feel, ridiculous

Emmanuelle Beart (52)

Birth:	14th August, 1963
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Actress

About

Emmanuelle Beart was born in Gassin, France. She is a French film actress. An eight-time César Award nominee, she won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1986 film Manon des Sources. Her other film roles include La Belle Noiseuse, A Heart in Winter, Nelly and Mr. Arnaud, Mission: Impossible and 8 Women. She is also known for her social activism. She is an ambassador for UNICEF.

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