Quotes from Emmanuelle Beart

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

In Hollywood there's no real material. They would send me stuff, but I hadn't even seen the director. If I don't see the director's eyes, I'm not going. I'm not even going to pack my bags.

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

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.

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

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

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

I don't give a damn about Hollywood.

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.

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.

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.

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.