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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
Actor
Actress
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Stage Actor
Bellville
Texas
Emmanuelle Béhart-Hasson
Emmanuelle Beart
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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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When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it it's like really making love.
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My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.
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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.
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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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My body is an instrument for me to use.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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 stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.
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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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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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I don't give a damn about Hollywood.
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It is not easy to age in harmony with one's roles.
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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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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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