Emmanuelle Beart

“If I have one thing perfect, it's my eyebrows. And my feet. I love my feet. They're like Japanese feet. The rest I would like to hide. Especially my freckles. I feel ridiculous.”

“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?”

“I don't give a damn about Hollywood.”

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

“In Hollywood there's no real material. They would send me stuff, but I hadn't even seen the director. If I don't see the director's eyes, I'm not going. I'm not even going to pack my bags.”

“I wouldn't say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn't right at school.”

“There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.”

“We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.”

“When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it's like really making love.”

“Often, when you see yourself on the screen, you feel like a sweater that's been put through the washing machine. You have the impression of having done something full and luminous, and suddenly, when you see it on the screen, it's turned back into a tiny little thing.”

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

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