A biography for Emmanuelle Bearthasn’t been written yet.
“It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema.”
“I had my mouth done when I was 27. It was a botched job. Obviously, if I had liked my mouth I wouldn't have had it re-done.”
“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.”
“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 have no TV, thank God. I haven't heard anything about Tom Cruise, except that he had a baby, I think.”
“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.”
“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.”
“My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.”
“Of course I am political. You 'ave to be don't you? Every day it is about your future, your right to that future. 'Ow can people ignore this? We 'ave to leave a good world for our children, n'est-ce pas?”
“I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.”
“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.”
“There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior.”
“I feel better in my body now than when I was 20. Why not?”
“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.”
“I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.”
“I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.”
“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.”
“I've just done a film in the United States. It's a thriller called 'A Crime', with Harvey Keitel, we play against each other, and it's so great to play in another language. But I'm definitely not American.”
“I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.”
“The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.”