Emmanuelle Beart

I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema.

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'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.