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.

- Emmanuelle Beart

I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

- Emmanuelle Beart

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.

- Emmanuelle Beart

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

- Emmanuelle Beart

Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.

- Emmanuelle Beart

I feel better in my body now than when I was 20. Why not?

- Emmanuelle Beart

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 goi…

- Emmanuelle Beart

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.

- Emmanuelle Beart

I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.

- Emmanuelle Beart