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
I have no TV, thank God. I haven't heard anything about Tom Cruise, except that he had a baby, I think.
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.
I don't see my old films, but I think of the characters I played as friends, like the women I meet in my life who made strong impressions on me. I remember them and they are part of me.
I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.
You may think of me as an object of desire and I'm going to tell you that I can be in front of you naked and not be erotic.
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 body is an instrument for me to use.
My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.
The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.
There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior.