Emmanuelle Beart

There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the…

— Emmanuelle Beart

Of course I am political. You 'ave to be don't you? Every day it is about your future, your right to that…

— Emmanuelle Beart

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

— Emmanuelle Beart

I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to…

— Emmanuelle Beart

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

— Emmanuelle Beart

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

— 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…

— Emmanuelle Beart

It is not easy to age in harmony with one's roles.

— 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…

— Emmanuelle Beart

My body is an instrument for me to use.

— Emmanuelle Beart

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

— 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 was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go…

— Emmanuelle Beart

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

— 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

Very often with an American movie, the end is very happy and you just feel good when you go out. When you…

— Emmanuelle Beart

My looks haven't prevented me from playing prostitutes or people broken by life. But when they need a token blonde with big…

— 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.…

— Emmanuelle Beart

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

— Emmanuelle Beart

Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.

— Emmanuelle Beart

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

— Emmanuelle Beart

We were raised without movies, theater or music. We had only nature, the hills, the trees. When I got on the set…

— Emmanuelle Beart

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

— Emmanuelle Beart

I don't see my old films, but I think of the characters I played as friends, like the women I meet in…

— Emmanuelle Beart

I've just done a film in the United States. It's a thriller called 'A Crime', with Harvey Keitel, we play against each…

— Emmanuelle Beart