I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else.
– Emmanuelle Beart
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.
– Emmanuelle Beart
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.
– Emmanuelle Beart
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.
– Emmanuelle Beart
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.
– 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 future. 'Ow can people ignore this? We 'ave to leave a good world for our children, n'est-ce pas?
– Emmanuelle Beart
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.
– Emmanuelle Beart
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.
– 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.
– Emmanuelle Beart
I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.
– Emmanuelle Beart
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.
– Emmanuelle Beart
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.