Emmanuelle Quotes & Sayings

I love doing voice-over. It's so fun. — Emmanuelle Chriqui

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. — Emmanuelle Beart

When I have a little down time, I like to go to the gym and try to bank some hours there. I like to spend time with my dogs, go hiking, do a little traveling. — Emmanuelle Vaugier

In France, I guess there's something like a tyranny in mentalities - we accept success badly, beauty, money. People are certainly envious, and this creates negative energy. This is annoying. I suffered a great deal at one time. I had to fight harder than others. Add to that my marriage to Polanski. — Emmanuelle Seigner

I don't really want to find myself face-to-face with 10,000 paparazzi. I just want to be comfortable. — Emmanuelle Seigner

The beauty of voice-over work is that maybe you come in and record once every two weeks for a couple of hours and do a couple episodes a session. It's awesome! You spend an afternoon playing in the booth, and there you have it. It doesn't interfere with much. — Emmanuelle Chriqui

Listen,
listen with your eyes,
and your lips.
Listen with your skin,
and your blood.
Can you hear us,
at the edges? — Emmanuelle De Maupassant

One evening, on being quite occupied by the state of the struffoli, I seated the Duca di San Orvieta with the Duchessa opposite, and between two of his mistresses. They fought over his attentions, above the table and below, like squid intent on extracting a mollusc from its shell. The poor man was so distracted that he hardly ate a bite. The Duchessa's words to me afterwards were not lacking in picturesque vividness. — Emmanuelle De Maupassant

When my husband won the Palme d'Or in 2002, I wore the same dress two days in a row. My daughter said, 'Mom! Did you sleep in your dress?' But I think it's cool to wear the same thing. I have to feel comfortable. — Emmanuelle Seigner

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. — Emmanuelle Beart

My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance. — Emmanuelle Beart

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

Allan Emmanuelle Karlsson closed his eyes and felt perfectly convinced that he would now pass away for ever. It had been exciting, the entire journey, but nothing lasts for ever, except possibly general stupidity. — Jonas Jonasson

I like animals, I really do, but some animals are just meant to be eaten. — Emmanuelle Vaugier

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. — Emmanuelle Beart

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? — Emmanuelle Beart

I look at my father. He is one of my heroes. He is such an incredible, classy man. He was such a great father and such a great husband in so many ways, and we lived through some pretty tough times losing my mom. When I see all that he did, I think, 'Wow, that's a really wonderful man.' — Emmanuelle Chriqui

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. — Emmanuelle Beart

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. — Emmanuelle Beart

Everything in life, bad or good, makes you change and grow - happily, because if it didn't, we'd be machines. — Emmanuelle Seigner

My career has been successful, but it's been a grind of hard work. — Emmanuelle Chriqui

But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined. — Irene Dunne

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? — Emmanuelle Beart

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. — Emmanuelle Beart

There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior. — Emmanuelle Beart

she feels still that grasp upon her ankle as if it were a circlet of iron: the embodiment of matrimony. She would be pinned, like the museum butterflies. He would remain free to flutter. — Emmanuelle De Maupassant

The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity. — Emmanuelle Beart

And we, from within the sigh of the trees, and the soft moss underfoot, and the calling of night birds, watched him as he watched, gazing where he should not. — Emmanuelle De Maupassant

When you're starting out, every line in a show or a commercial is like a huge success. — Emmanuelle Chriqui

When I did 'Frantic,' I didn't have a lot of experience. My English was so bad, and I did an OK job, I think, but I was not amazing. — Emmanuelle Seigner

I hate physical effort. — Emmanuelle Alt

Men still assume I must be like the girl I played in 'Emmanuelle.' John Wayne was never accused of killing people during his free time, but I'm forever stuck with the image of 'Emmanuelle.' The truth is, I should have got an Oscar for that role because I'm nothing like that woman. — Sylvia Kristel

Never reveal your insecurities to a man, because nine times out of 10 they have no idea they even exist. — Emmanuelle Chriqui

Reese Witherspoon is my everywoman. She's managed to have a family and this amazing career. That's the goal. — Emmanuelle Chriqui

I come from a family of actors. My grandfather was like a Laurence Olivier with the Comedie Francaise. Since I was four I went every week to the Comedie Francaise. My aunt and grandmother were there, but my grandfather was a big star. — Emmanuelle Seigner

I want audiences to look at adolescent delinquents with greater understanding and more compassion. — Emmanuelle Bercot

I generally circuit train and do Pilates. — Emmanuelle Chriqui

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

I had to deal with death at a really young age. — Emmanuelle Chriqui

All that was Emmanuelle Holmes in his kitchen in his tee making him a sandwich after he'd fucked her and they'd both come hard.
That did not suck. — Kristen Ashley

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. — Emmanuelle Beart

There's material that I read that I fall in love with, and I always get a little bit sad because I know that, when I fall in love with it, almost everyone else is falling in love with that same piece. Getting the crack at doing that thing that, in my soul, I know I have to do it, that's the role. — Emmanuelle Chriqui

I started as a model when I was 14 because I wanted to make money. — Emmanuelle Seigner

When you have confidence, that's what becomes attractive to other people and makes them want to work with you and spend time with you. — Emmanuelle Chriqui

I wouldn't say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn't right at school. — Emmanuelle Beart

On the subject of pornography, Lord MacCaulay believes that term only suitable for material lacking artistic merit, being designed solely for the purpose of sexual arousal. His own collection of books, sketches and cards (some more dog-eared than others) he deems akin to the Venus de Milo, rising above the common fodder of aids to 'relief'. — Emmanuelle De Maupassant

That's really empowering - people recognize that I care about other things. — Emmanuelle Chriqui

I can celebrate food anytime. I love cheese. When I crave a certain food, I just eat it. — Emmanuelle Chriqui

I don't like the idea of fitting into a mould so as to conform. What I like is the danger, the difference - being unpredictable. — Emmanuelle Seigner

I don't give a damn about Hollywood. — Emmanuelle Beart

We are the voices in the shadows,
Between the light and shade,
Betwixt life and restful death,
In the dark periphery of the unseen.

We're here,
At the edges.
We are the villainous punished,
The innocent murdered or abandoned,
Our lives ended by foul means, or unspeakable deeds.
We are your lovers long gone; your siblings forsaken.

Can you hear us?
At the edges

From the Foreword of Cautionary Tales - by Emmanuelle de Maupassant — Emmanuelle De Maupassant

The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous. — Emmanuelle Beart

Good and evil exist in all of us.
a moment's temptation takes us on a wrong path.
On that path may lurk foul fiends,
inhuman, yet feeding, needing
all our weaknesses: vanity, indolence and envy,
Easy fruits for evil appetites,
our flesh, a tasty afterthought,
our bones flung asunder. — Emmanuelle De Maupassant

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. — Emmanuelle Beart

Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening. — Emmanuelle Beart

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

The cold is waiting to ooze through the soles of your shoes. Maggot-damp, this city is festering: home to hollow faces of grey flesh. They stare from windows unclean, into the sun never reaches: dismal lives lived in dismal constriction. — Emmanuelle De Maupassant

After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie. — Emmanuelle Beart

Inside, there was a bed, and upon the bed there was a woman. More beautiful was she even than the damask rose while her scent, drifting through the open window, was that of the night dew. Her hair was silken as the raven's wing. Quite naked, she lay, so still upon the bed, her eyes closed in reverie.

The young man looked first upon her breasts, where her hand rested. And upon each breast, there was a rosebud nipple. Upon each nipple there was a tip most tender. Upon each tip there was a milky drop.

Chin lifted, lips parted, she milked her maiden breast.

'What I would give to suckle at that teat,' thought he.

from 'Against Faithlessness' in Cautionary Tales — Emmanuelle De Maupassant

"Lost in Translation" by Sofia Coppola. It's a masterpiece. I laughed a lot but was also overwhelmed by the story - a rare combination. — Emmanuelle Bercot

My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France. — Emmanuelle Beart

She is still forming her conclusions but, above all, is convinced that their actions are borne of instinct: fixed patterns that take them to their source of food, to their safe havens, to their mates, and, ultimately, to their death, since their predators learn these patterns as surely as if they, too, had read Maud's book. — Emmanuelle De Maupassant

Generally for red carpet, I love to relax first. I love to work out. I love to eat well, drink tons of water beforehand, so on the night of the red carpet I feel good and ready to go. I also love to get a good body scrub. — Emmanuelle Chriqui

I have no TV, thank God. I haven't heard anything about Tom Cruise, except that he had a baby, I think. — Emmanuelle Beart

Acting makes you live plenty of lives. — Emmanuelle Riva

I feel like I want to be known first and foremost for my work. — Emmanuelle Chriqui

Is it easy to avoid paparazzi? It is, it really is. — Emmanuelle Chriqui

Clothes should be practical. I like the concept of easy wear. I think [86-year-old] actress Emmanuelle Riva was extremely chic. She's super stylish. At the Cesars, she was wearing this beautiful red silk dress. I don't know whose it was. — Christophe Lemaitre

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. — Emmanuelle Beart

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. — Emmanuelle Beart

As a child I was given the freedom to explore my passion for acting, but I also grew up in a home where there were a lot of rules. I didn't have 'yes' parents. — Emmanuelle Chriqui

It is not easy to age in harmony with one's roles. — Emmanuelle Beart

I have to be honest, I am a true jeans and t-shirt girl. — Emmanuelle Chriqui

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. — Emmanuelle Beart

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. — Emmanuelle Beart

When you are happy and in love and when you have children, then maybe you are beautiful. — Emmanuelle Beart

I love what I do, but I never want to OD on celebrity. — Emmanuelle Chriqui

Someone once told me that the most dynamic actors are people who have stories. People who have lived life. People with experiences. — Emmanuelle Chriqui

Elle complimented me on my weight loss and asked me which diet I was on. Acid stomach, I wanted to say. You should try it. I can introduce your husband to Emmanuelle if you want. — Kristan Higgins

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

She is drawn to the river, and all its hideous, dead-eyed treasures: rot-bloated cats, and cold-meat corpses of unwanted infants, eels plucking at their tender fingers and toes. — Emmanuelle De Maupassant

I've wanted to be Mick Jagger since I was 18. One of the things I love about music is that you don't have to be dependent on other people like you are in the film business. I hate being dependent on anyone. With my music, I can do whatever I want. I also think it's made me more relaxed as an actress. — Emmanuelle Seigner

A good attitude for a woman is to be confident, and to be confident is to be natural. — Emmanuelle Alt

We who are beyond the mortal world see many things from the edges; we hear the subtle shifts of rhythm in the beat of a blackening heart. — Emmanuelle De Maupassant

My mom was an aesthetician and she went to beauty school back in the '60s. I just remember watching her do her makeup all the time. She always had her nails done, makeup on - her face was ready to go when she went out. I loved it. — Emmanuelle Chriqui

I'm sure my children will be artists. I hope they will direct because it is much more interesting. Acting is great, and I love it, but it is very passive, and it depends on other people's desire, and you depend on others all the time. — Emmanuelle Seigner

I'm so against surgery. I can tell you today and I can tell you for sure I will never do anything to my face. Nothing. The age I am? That's it. — Emmanuelle Alt

Girls barely budding open their legs to make a living, alongside the toothless and rancid of breath; hair thick with lice, they all find customers if the price is right, against the wall or on sheets well-soiled. Their holes cost but a shilling. Skins grow thick and claws sharp. — Emmanuelle De Maupassant

I always describe my career as something where nothing ever popped overnight. — Emmanuelle Chriqui

Sometimes you feel more naked when you're totally dressed than the other way around. — Emmanuelle Beart

He is a man-beast, carnivore incarnate, motivated by carnal avarice and wearing only the mask of civility.

She could sip from that cup.

It is his presumption that deters her: his belief that he has already caught Maud in his paw. — Emmanuelle De Maupassant

I don't know why, but in my career and in my life, I often find myself in situations where I am the only girl among boys. — Emmanuelle Chriqui

Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of. — Sylvia Kristel

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. — Emmanuelle Beart

I tell the most horrible jokes. — Emmanuelle Chriqui

Imagination and reality have little in common — Emmanuelle Riva

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. — Emmanuelle Beart

In acting, you draw so much on your private life. — Emmanuelle Riva

In various states of undress, those about her joined in her fondling, lowering their mouths not only to her nipples but to her arms and legs, so that each limb was held captive about the wrist or ankle, and smothered in kisses and gentle nibbles. In this way, perhaps eight of the assembly joined in pleasuring the young lady, taking care to only deliver the sweetest of sensations.

The Gentlemen's Club — Emmanuelle De Maupassant

I've always dreamed of doing a period piece, I just never knew what it would be. — Emmanuelle Chriqui