Quotes by Emmanuelle Beart

About Emmanuelle Beart:

Emmanuelle Béart is a French film actress, who has appeared in over 60 film and television productions since 1972. Béart won a César Award for Best Supporting Actress in the film Manon des Sources (1986). She has been nominated a further seven times for Most Promising Actress and Best Actress.
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I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.

Emmanuelle Beart

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

Emmanuelle Beart

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

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

I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.

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

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

Emmanuelle Beart

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 ...

Emmanuelle Beart

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

I don't give a damn about Hollywood.

Emmanuelle Beart

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

Emmanuelle Beart

I feel better in my body now than when I was 20. Why not?

Emmanuelle Beart

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

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My body is an instrument for me to use.

Emmanuelle Beart

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

Emmanuelle Beart

Author Bio

  • NameEmmanuelle Beart
  • DescriptionFrench actress
  • BornAugust 14, 1965
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionActor; Film Actor; Model
  • AwardsOfficier Des Arts Et Des Lettres?