Emmanuelle Beart

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

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

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”

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

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