A biography for Emmanuelle Bearthasn’t been written yet.
“The press follow me. I sue them. That's the deal.”
“The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.”
“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.”
“My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.”
“There is a phrase in French, which means 'to miss.' To pass by. To not be able to stop. You love someone and someone loves you, but it just can't work for different reasons.”
“Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening.”
“Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.”
“It is not easy to age in harmony with one's roles.”
“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.”
“Sometimes you feel more naked when you're totally dressed than the other way around.”
“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.”
“When you are happy and in love and when you have children, then maybe you are beautiful.”
“Very often with an American movie, the end is very happy and you just feel good when you go out. When you go to a French movie, it's kind of like, oh!, and you can't go out; you're stuck in your chair. It goes so deeply inside of the heart.”
“My looks haven't prevented me from playing prostitutes or people broken by life. But when they need a token blonde with big breasts, that's OK, too. It's part of the game.”
“My body is an instrument for me to use.”
“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 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.”
“I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.”
“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 was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers.”