Emmanuelle Beart quote: "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."

Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when the...
EMMANUELLE BEART

Often, when you see yourself on the screen, you feel like a sweater that's been put through the ...
EMMANUELLE BEART

I am an actress, I earn money, I am well-known. I don't think it is altruism to become engaged i...
EMMANUELLE BEART

If a man or woman has something redone it is because he or she can no longer live with that part of ...
EMMANUELLE BEART

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

Very often with an American movie, the end is very happy and you just feel good when you go out. Whe...
EMMANUELLE BEART

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

There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back...
EMMANUELLE BEART

If I have one thing perfect, it's my eyebrows. And my feet. I love my feet. They're like Jap...
EMMANUELLE BEART

I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with ...
EMMANUELLE BEART

The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immo...
EMMANUELLE BEART

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

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

I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that soun...
EMMANUELLE BEART

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

For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes ...
EMMANUELLE BEART

We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's ...
EMMANUELLE BEART

I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.
EMMANUELLE BEART

I have never had so much fun as in Montreal. I taught the kids French, I baby-sat, I went to school,...
EMMANUELLE BEART

We were raised without movies, theater or music. We had only nature, the hills, the trees. When I go...
EMMANUELLE BEART

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

Of course I am political. You 'ave to be don't you? Every day it is about your future, your ...
EMMANUELLE BEART

I have no TV, thank God. I haven't heard anything about Tom Cruise, except that he had a baby, I...
EMMANUELLE BEART

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

The press follow me. I sue them. That's the deal.
EMMANUELLE BEART

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

Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches...
EMMANUELLE BEART

I'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non.
EMMANUELLE BEART

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

When I was modeling in Japan, I could blend in a little because of my hair, but my roommates with bl...
EMMANUELLE VAUGIER

The girl next door isn't necessarily blonde and blue-eyed anymore. So I don't feel like I ne...
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI

I look at my father. He is one of my heroes. He is such an incredible, classy man. He was such a gre...
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI

I'm this little Canadian Jewish girl, and I'm living my dream.
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI

I feel like I want to be known first and foremost for my work.
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI

I appreciate humor so much, but I'm actually not a funny girl.
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI

I tell the most horrible jokes.
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI

One tip I like is don't forget your reusable bags when you go to the drug store or to the mall. ...
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI

Acting is not glamorous. It's not. Anybody who wants to get into acting for the glamour is in fo...
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI

When you're starting out, every line in a show or a commercial is like a huge success.
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI

As a child I was given the freedom to explore my passion for acting, but I also grew up in a home wh...
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI

I love European films in general. If I were to go to the movie store or something, that's what I...
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI

For the record: I wear makeup. All. The. Time. But I do it in a way that looks natural.
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI

When I look up and see a star, I know my mom is there. She's with me all the time. It's a po...
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI

I love doing voice-over. It's so fun.
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI

I don't know why, but in my career and in my life, I often find myself in situations where I am ...
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI

Generally for red carpet, I love to relax first. I love to work out. I love to eat well, drink tons ...
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI

My mom was an aesthetician and she went to beauty school back in the '60s. I just remember watch...
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI

I'm actually very sensitive to energies, and when people are not aligned, I can feel that.
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI

Never reveal your insecurities to a man, because nine times out of 10 they have no idea they even ex...
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI

The beauty of voice-over work is that maybe you come in and record once every two weeks for a couple...
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI

When you have confidence, that's what becomes attractive to other people and makes them want to ...
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI

Is it easy to avoid paparazzi? It is, it really is.
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI

My career has been successful, but it's been a grind of hard work.
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI

We have this idea of perfection that is so unrealistic. We are our own worst enemy. No one is notici...
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI

I have to be honest, I am a true jeans and t-shirt girl.
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI

A great day in New York would be to wake up, get a cup of coffee and head up to Central Park for a n...
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI

Love is the essence of life; love touches all of our work. Love never leaves us. It clings to us, an...
EMMANUELLE RIVA

In France, I guess there's something like a tyranny in mentalities - we accept success badly, be...
EMMANUELLE SEIGNER

I did great things in the theater. I did some nice roles, 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'...
EMMANUELLE SEIGNER

I was a typical French student of the 1990s - I imagined that, after a short excursion, I would work...
EMMANUELLE CHARPENTIER

I was outside of myself going: 'Whoa, that was kind of sexy.
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI

I come from a family of actors. My grandfather was like a Laurence Olivier with the Comedie Francais...
EMMANUELLE SEIGNER

It ended up feeling like a choreographed dance.
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI

I play a girl named Jordie in bed with my ex-boyfriend. We both have new partners, and the conversat...
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI

I don't like the idea of fitting into a mould so as to conform. What I like is the danger, the d...
EMMANUELLE SEIGNER

Reese Witherspoon is my everywoman. She's managed to have a family and this amazing career. That...
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI

I think age is just something written down on a piece of paper. I mean, you come across 20-year-olds...
EMMANUELLE SEIGNER

[The cast, thankfully, doesn't think Hurst's job on House of the Dead 2: Dead Aim will be too diffic...
EMMANUELLE VAUGIER

[Emmanuelle Vaugier told SCI FI Wire that she's completed production on House of the Dead 2: Dead Ai...
EMMANUELLE VAUGIER

[Painkiller Jane centers on the title heroine, a young Marine officer who gains rapid self-healing p...
EMMANUELLE VAUGIER

I play the sheriff of a small town in Pueblo, N.M., and there's a crash on the main highway in and o...
EMMANUELLE VAUGIER

It's like my son was not a human being. Even if you hit a dog, you have the (responsibility) to call...
EMMANUELLE RICHARD

It is dreadful to see actors reproducing the same image constantly.
EMMANUELLE RIVA

Personally, I don't think it is acceptable to manipulate the human germline for the purpose of c...
EMMANUELLE CHARPENTIER

If by chance people would still offer me roles, I'd still like to do them. But if not, that'...
EMMANUELLE RIVA

In acting, you draw so much on your private life.
EMMANUELLE RIVA

I've never wanted to be a star, never.
EMMANUELLE RIVA

Acting makes you live plenty of lives.
EMMANUELLE RIVA

I love life. I love life to death.
EMMANUELLE RIVA

Everything in life, bad or good, makes you change and grow - happily, because if it didn't, we&#...
EMMANUELLE SEIGNER

'Venus in Fur' is very Polanski: you have the knife of 'Rosemary's Baby'; you ha...
EMMANUELLE SEIGNER

I never had the slightest desire to have cosmetic surgery - partly because I don't want to look ...
EMMANUELLE SEIGNER

When I have a little down time, I like to go to the gym and try to bank some hours there. I like to ...
EMMANUELLE VAUGIER

Horror movies have never been my thing. I love psychological thrillers like 'The Exorcist', ...
EMMANUELLE VAUGIER

I love to go hiking. I hike every day for about 1 1/2 to 2 hours in the hills around LA. I go to the...
EMMANUELLE VAUGIER

I like animals, I really do, but some animals are just meant to be eaten.
EMMANUELLE VAUGIER

Would I put my daughter in a private all-girl school? No. Would I put her in a private co-ed school?...
EMMANUELLE VAUGIER

I don't like French food. I like everything but French food.
EMMANUELLE SEIGNER

I grew up around the Luxembourg Gardens, so I guess that is my best memory.
EMMANUELLE SEIGNER

Acting in another language is great, and I've done that. But you can't do it as well as you ...
EMMANUELLE SEIGNER

When I did 'Frantic,' I didn't have a lot of experience. My English was so bad, and I di...
EMMANUELLE SEIGNER

I'm sure my children will be artists. I hope they will direct because it is much more interestin...
EMMANUELLE SEIGNER

My sister Mathilde is an actress, but more like a French Jennifer Aniston. She's famous just in ...
EMMANUELLE SEIGNER

When my husband won the Palme d'Or in 2002, I wore the same dress two days in a row. My daughter...
EMMANUELLE SEIGNER

I don't really want to find myself face-to-face with 10,000 paparazzi. I just want to be comfort...
EMMANUELLE SEIGNER

Sometimes when you do big movies, you can lose sometimes a little bit of soul.
EMMANUELLE SEIGNER

He is a man-beast, carnivore incarnate, motivated by carnal avarice and wearing only the mask of civ...
EMMANUELLE DE MAUPASSANT

She is still forming her conclusions but, above all, is convinced that their actions are borne of in...
EMMANUELLE DE MAUPASSANT

She is drawn to the river, and all its hideous, dead-eyed treasures: rot-bloated cats, and cold-meat...
EMMANUELLE DE MAUPASSANT

Ha!’ cackled the fiend, ‘I expect you’d like revenge on that husband of yours. Murder shouldn�...
EMMANUELLE DE MAUPASSANT

What if you should forget yourself in the excitement and just peddle straight through the park and o...
EMMANUELLE DE MAUPASSANT

she feels still that grasp upon her ankle as if it were a circlet of iron: the embodiment of matrimo...
EMMANUELLE DE MAUPASSANT

Inside, there was a bed, and upon the bed there was a woman. More beautiful was she even than the da...
EMMANUELLE DE MAUPASSANT

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.

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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.

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