Top 100 Emmanuelle Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. So because of their affair, Emmanuelle gets a promotion and a raise, Adam gets a vacation, and I got an STD panel.
Kristan Higgins
#9. Drink the sun's warmth and the moon's icy glitter, and taste that which the dead and the yet-to-be-born cannot: the potency of this world.
Emmanuelle De Maupassant
#10. It is dreadful to see actors reproducing the same image constantly.
Emmanuelle Riva
#11. 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
#12. I started as a model when I was 14 because I wanted to make money.
Emmanuelle Seigner
#13. I have no TV, thank God. I haven't heard anything about Tom Cruise, except that he had a baby, I think.
Emmanuelle Beart
#14. My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.
Emmanuelle Beart
#16. Acting in another language is great, and I've done that. But you can't do it as well as you can do it in your own language.
Emmanuelle Seigner
#17. I wouldn't say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn't right at school.
Emmanuelle Beart
#18. 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
#19. When you are happy and in love and when you have children, then maybe you are beautiful.
Emmanuelle Beart
#20. An 'usband should be plain enough to sit at his settle, and simple-minded enough to accept the stew on his plate, rather than looking round ev'ry corner for a more succulent chop,' declares Elsie.
Emmanuelle De Maupassant
#21. Forsaking all other thoughts, he rutted into her, in a fashion more animal than human. His eruption he held fast within, so that she squirmed against the sensation before accepting her own fall into oblivion, her walls pulsing to an echoing rhythm.
from The Gentlemen's Club
Emmanuelle De Maupassant
#23. 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
#24. My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.
Emmanuelle Beart
#25. Would I put my daughter in a private all-girl school? No. Would I put her in a private co-ed school? Yes. Would I put her in the school I went to? No way.
Emmanuelle Vaugier
#26. The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.
Emmanuelle Beart
#28. Everything in life, bad or good, makes you change and grow - happily, because if it didn't, we'd be machines.
Emmanuelle Seigner
#29. 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
#30. 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
#32. Crook your finger;
they'll come closer.
Pull the covers tighter to your chin;
in beside you they'll creep.
Emmanuelle De Maupassant
#33. 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
#36. 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
#37. Never reveal your insecurities to a man, because nine times out of 10 they have no idea they even exist.
Emmanuelle Chriqui
#38. 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.
Emmanuelle Beart
#39. My career has been successful, but it's been a grind of hard work.
Emmanuelle Chriqui
#40. 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
#41. It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema.
Emmanuelle Beart
#42. 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
#43. I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else.
Emmanuelle Beart
#44. 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
#45. I think age is just something written down on a piece of paper. I mean, you come across 20-year-olds who are like old people sometimes. I've never taken much account of age throughout my life - my own or anyone else's.
Emmanuelle Seigner
#48. There's always a high school jerk, isn't there? But I didn't date much in high school, because I went to an all-girls' private school for ten years.
Emmanuelle Vaugier
#49. 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.
Emmanuelle Beart
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. That's really empowering - people recognize that I care about other things.
Emmanuelle Chriqui
#53. Often, people ask if it's different doing live-action and voice-over, but the only thing that's different, really, is that we're in a booth and there's no camera on me. But, my intention, as an actor, is exactly the same.
Emmanuelle Chriqui
#54. I've always dreamed of doing a period piece, I just never knew what it would be.
Emmanuelle Chriqui
#55. 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
#56. I am an actress, I earn money, I am well-known. I don't think it is altruism to become engaged in humanitarian work. It's the least one can do.
Emmanuelle Beart
#58. 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
#61. When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it's like really making love.
Emmanuelle Beart
#62. Someone once told me that the most dynamic actors are people who have stories. People who have lived life. People with experiences.
Emmanuelle Chriqui
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. There's a lot of good roles for men, always, and for very young girls. But for women, not so many.
Emmanuelle Seigner
#66. I like animals, I really do, but some animals are just meant to be eaten.
Emmanuelle Vaugier
#67. The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.
Emmanuelle Beart
#68. 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
#69. I've always been very good at convincing people. For instance, if I arrive in an airport and I'm in economy, I can always convince the guy to put me in first class.
Emmanuelle Seigner
#70. Sometimes you feel more naked when you're totally dressed than the other way around.
Emmanuelle Beart
#71. I got an Apple TV and hooked it up right away. Undeniably, this is the way of the future, period. It just is, and that's cool. What's cool about this is that we got to do something so playful, cool, kick-ass and over-the-top.
Emmanuelle Chriqui
#72. 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.
Emmanuelle Beart
#73. In France, it is television that pays for films to be made and I received all of my funding from TV: two television channels, government funding and distributor contribution (Wild Bunch). My films are low-budget, and not expensive [to make].
Emmanuelle Bercot
#74. 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.
Emmanuelle Beart
#75. 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
#76. Horror movies have never been my thing. I love psychological thrillers like 'The Exorcist', 'The Shining', even though they scare the living daylights out of me.
Emmanuelle Vaugier
#77. 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.
Emmanuelle Beart
#78. I can celebrate food anytime. I love cheese. When I crave a certain food, I just eat it.
Emmanuelle Chriqui
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. I love European films in general. If I were to go to the movie store or something, that's what I like to see.
Emmanuelle Chriqui
#82. 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
#83. I think the dream role is getting the opportunity to really sink my teeth into something and transform in the role.
Emmanuelle Chriqui
#84. Sometimes when you do big movies, you can lose sometimes a little bit of soul.
Emmanuelle Seigner
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. I did great things in the theater. I did some nice roles, 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' or 'La Vie en Rose.' And I love my role in 'Frantic.'
Emmanuelle Seigner
#88. It's funny because the voice-over world is definitely another career. It's another outlet to be creative. But, I'm just not invested, in the way that I am with film and television.
Emmanuelle Chriqui
#89. "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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.
Emmanuelle Beart
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. For the record: I wear makeup. All. The. Time. But I do it in a way that looks natural.
Emmanuelle Chriqui
#99. Acting is not glamorous. It's not. Anybody who wants to get into acting for the glamour is in for a hard time.
Emmanuelle Chriqui
#100. I'm actually very sensitive to energies, and when people are not aligned, I can feel that.
Emmanuelle Chriqui
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