Quotes from 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.

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

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.

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.

Of course I am political. You 'ave to be don't you? Every day it is about your future, your right to that future. 'Ow can people ignore this? We 'ave to leave a good world for our children, n'est-ce pas?

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.

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

After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.

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.

Of course I am political. You 'ave to be don't you? Every day it is about your future, your right to that future. 'Ow can people ignore this? We 'ave to leave a good world for our children, n'est-ce pas?

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

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

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

My body is an instrument for me to use.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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