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My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.
Emmanuelle Beart
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Emmanuelle Beart
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 14
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Bellville
Texas
Emmanuelle Béhart-Hasson
Emmanuelle Beart
Emmanuelle Behart-Hasson
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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?
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After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.
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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.
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I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else.
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Sometimes you feel more naked when you're totally dressed than the other way around.
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When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it it's like really making love.
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There is a phrase in French, which means 'to miss.' To pass by. To not be able to stop. You love someone and someone loves you, but it just can't work for different reasons.
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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.
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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.
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Very often with an American movie, the end is very happy and you just feel good when you go out. When you go to a French movie, it's kind of like, oh!, and you can't go out you're stuck in your chair. It goes so deeply inside of the heart.
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I have no TV, thank God. I haven't heard anything about Tom Cruise, except that he had a baby, I think.
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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.
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The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.
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I keep reading that I'm cold. But I'm not, I'm shy. And I play a lot of women of fire and sexuality like an animal - so I'm cold on one side and fiery on the other.
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Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening.
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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.
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My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.
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My body is an instrument for me to use.
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I feel better in my body now than when I was 20. Why not?
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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.
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