Emmanuelle Beart
Emmanuelle Beart
Emmanuelle Béart is a French film actress, who has appeared in over 60 film and television productions since 1972. An eight-time César Award nominee, she won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1986 film Manon des Sources. Her other film roles include La Belle Noiseuse, A Heart in Winter, Nelly and Mr. Arnaud, Mission: Impossibleand 8 Women...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth14 August 1963
CityGassin, France
CountryFrance
My body is an instrument for me to use.
The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.
The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.
When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it's like really making love.
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.
I feel better in my body now than when I was 20. Why not?
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.
I have never had so much fun as in Montreal. I taught the kids French, I baby-sat, I went to school, I was a receptionist at a hairdresser's, I danced and drank all night. I found that the more you do, the more you have time to do... it's weird, non?
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.
It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema.
My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.
There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior.
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.