“I just want to say how much I enjoyed Madonna's performance. She is an absolute professional and she makes us all look like amateurs.”
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Emmanuelle Seigner
Emmanuelle Seigner is a French actress and singer. She is known for her roles in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), The Ninth Gate (1999) and Frantic (1988). She has been nominated for a César Award for Best Actress for Venus in Fur (2013), and for two César Awards for Best Supporting Actress in Place Vendôme (1998) and La Vie en Rose (2007). She has been married to Polish film director Rom…
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Born 22 June 1966 · Q234890
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2026· 39 entries
“Madonna is a funny person, respectful and collaborative. I've been aware for a year that Madonna was a Gogol Bordello fan and in the end, we met trough mutual friends and we spoke a lot.”
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“I’ve learned so much from working with her – the power aspect about how to use what you have is an amazing thing. I learn more stuff about myself as I go along.”
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“When I first started working with her I just wanted to be like her – I think I misinterpreted a lot of things. The fame. I just tried to be like her and didn’t do things my own way. It was funny looking back on it.”
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“Madonna gave me some great advice about my own career and really helped me to go for what I wanted to do – not what a record company told me. She always said I could do it.”
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“She was very down to earth. It was nice to see after all her success, she's still very grounded. It was cool to see her interaction with Lourdes. She's a cool mom. She shot a couple of the photographs herself at the end. She definitely has a vision and was very hands-on. It was really easy working with her. She's very comfortable to be around — very professional but a lot of fun.”
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“There'd be no Gaga without Madonna so let's put it in fucking perspective…”
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“...Madge was doing that when I was doing it, you know? I saw Madonna outside the Music Machine before she even made it. I was doing a gig with the band in like '79. There was this chick outside from New York going 'I'm going to be a star' and it was her! And she's got some fucking balls you know?”
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“I'm always quite starstruck. The first time I met Madonna, I couldn't actually get off the chair to shake her hand. It must have appeared really rude but it was because I was totally gobsmacked that she'd just walked in and made a beeline for me. I don't think I actually managed to get any words out; I just sort of froze and grinned inanely.”
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“She's done as much as Dietrich did for fucking Hollywood stars. She's gone in and said 'Alright. I've been raped. Someone fucking stuck his dick in my gob in a back alley. I got up from that and I went in there and I had a big fight. And I won.' She fucking won, good luck to the woman.”
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“One set of circumstances does not complete you. Maybe nothing ever does. So you work on your life and you work on your 'work' and you try to live every single day like it's your last. And you try to be better, to yourself and to others. I don't always succeed. But I try and it's my goal.”
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“I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.”
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“Straight men need to be emasculated. I'm sorry. They all need to be slapped around. Women have been kept down for too long. Every straight guy should have a man's tongue in his mouth at least once.”
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“Then there are guys who say 'I have never fantasized about being with a man.' They are lying. And the least offensive men I've been with in terms of their sexual politics and how they view me as a woman, have been men who have either slept with men, or at least kissed or held a man once. It opens up your thinking. You don't think that women are less-than you are.”
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“A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.”
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“I think I have a dick in my brain. I don't need to have one between my legs.”
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“I performed at Mom and Dad's party when I was four. Oh my gosh, I was singing a Madonna song and I peed myself.”
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“I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she's performing, the audience is just in awe of her.”
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“She has this ability to have you in the palm of her hand again. I went to see her last year in the Confessions on a Dance Floor and it was brilliant, it was really inspiring.”
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“I love horses. I think I may have been one of Henry VIII’s knights in another life, riding through a great forest.”
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“I am because we are. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved.”
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“Now that I got everyone's attention, what do I have to say?”
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“I'm not going to compromise my artistic integrity.”
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“I went to New York. I had a dream. I wanted to be a big star. I didn’t know anybody. I wanted to dance. I wanted to sing. I wanted to do all those things. I wanted to make people happy. I wanted to be famous. I wanted everybody to love me. I wanted to be a star. I worked really hard and my dream came true.”
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“Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.”
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“Come on girls! Do you believe in love? Cause I got something to say about it.”
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“I was sacked from Dunkin' Donuts for squirting the donuts jelly all over the customers.”
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“The cross is a very powerful symbol and it symbolizes suffering, but it also is connected to a person who was loving and sharing and his message was about unconditional love. I tried to take a powerful image and use it to draw attention to a situation that needs attention. For me, we all need to be Jesus in our time. Jesus' message was to love your neighbor as yourself and these are people in need.”
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“Maybe I'm just a gay man inside a woman's body!”
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“Hey you! Don't be silly! Put a rubber on your willie!”
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“No man can have sex with anyone but me and since I don't have that kind of time on my hands, you might as well all be gay!”
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“I'll flirt with anyone from garbagemen to grandmothers.”
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“If you don't like my attitude, then you can fuck off, just go to Texas and suck George Bush's dick!”
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“Madonna as a talent? Superior to all; she is a classic. I wish she would sing the standards. That is what her voice is made for. When she would sing around the house, I would close my eyes and melt. I was so privileged to be there.”
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“THAT LADY. I was never a fan. I saw her in that silly Lucky Star video in the early days of MTV, and I knew I would be reunited with my mother/ lover/ teacher/ friend/ bitch/ cheater/ liar/ goddess/ student/ poetess/ angel/ pain/ tears/ broken-heart/ inspiration/ intrigue/ and human awe. We fell hard immediately too much, too soon for the both of us. In the end, when you love something, let it go.”
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“I don’t like Madonna’s music, but she’s an amazing pop star,’ she says. ‘She’s brilliant at borrowing other people’s ideas.”
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Le Figaro: Emmanuelle Seigner
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Deadline.com: Emmanuelle Seigner Talks Loyalty To Roman Polanski; Rock Band L’Epée; Daughter’s Horror Debut & One Career Regret – Taormina
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2022· 1 entry
ELLE: Emmanuelle Seigner défend son mari Roman Polanski dans « Sept à Huit » et choque les internautes
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2019· 1 entry
Released an album "Diabolique" with The Limiñanas and Anton Newcombe of The Brian Jonestown Massacre
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2018· 1 entry
Voici: Dernières actualités de Emmanuelle Seigner
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2014· 1 entry
Released album “Distant Lover”.
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2012· 1 entry
Played the principal role of Vanda in Polanski's French film adaptation of David Ives's two-character play Venus in Fur, based on the Austrian novel of the near-same name, for which she received praise as Vanda, an a
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2010· 2 entries
Released album “Dingue”.
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Seigner was featured in Jerzy Skolimowski's Essential Killing, which went on to win the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival
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2009· 1 entry
Gala: VIDEO- Emmanuelle Seigner est vraiment dingue
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2008· 8 entries
“I really love 'Like a Prayer' because it was the first one I learned every word to.”
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“I just like the idea of pills. I like to collect them but not actually take them. When I fell off my horse, I got tons of stuff: Demerol and Vicodin and Xanax and Valium and Oxycontin, which is supposed to be like heroin. And I'm quite scared to take them. I'm a control freak.”
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“I must have been Japanese in a previous life. I'm pretty sure I was a warrioress. I can't explain it, I just know. I'm good at fighting - fighting with a big sword.”
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“This is a historical evening. This is fucking important evening... We are lucky to be sharing it with each other. This is the beginning of a whole new world. Open your fucking head!”
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“Not only does society suffer from racism and sexism but it also suffers from ageism. Once you reach a certain age you're not allowed to be adventurous, you're not allowed to be sexual. I mean, is there a rule? Are you supposed to just die?”
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“I pay attention to what’s going on around me. I’m always looking for new energy, new talent, new voices. When you do that I think it’s easier to come up with fresh ideas. It's not that my career has been based on surprising people, but it’s been about challenging myself — to constantly do new things that are going to broaden my own mind and in the process, hopefully, connect with other people.”
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“Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.”
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“One must dare to show what he wants. You have to go and ask for things rather than wait for them to happen.”
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2007· 1 entry
Released album “Ultra Orange & Emmanuelle”.
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2006· 2 entries
Became the lead singer of the pop rock band Ultra Orange, and the group's name was changed to Ultra Orange & Emmanuelle
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“When I came to New York it was the first time I'd ever taken a plane, the first time I'd ever gotten a taxi-cab, the first time for everything. And I came here with 35 dollars in my pocket. It was the bravest thing I'd ever done.”
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2005· 3 entries
Released album “Backstage”.
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“I don't care if you have a small dick, as long as you know how to use that stick.”
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“I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”
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2003· 1 entry
“That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure.”
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1999· 7 entries
“Phallic symbols. You know Catholics. I used to draw people naked all the time in my art class and my nun teachers used to tell me I had to put clothes on them. So I just drew lines around their bodies. See-through clothes.”
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“What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego. How will I know when I've succeeded? When I stop caring what anyone thinks.”
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“I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.”
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“Hollywood is about playing the game, and I can't think of any successful actresses who didn't play the game. there's a lot more renegades in the music business, from Patti Smith to Janis Joplin.”
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“I am attracted to a thug. I like that quality, but I like the other side of it, too. Because all guys who go around behaving in macho ways are really scared little girls. So you have to look beneath the surface. There's a difference between my ideal man and a man that I'm sexually attracted to, believe me. Therein lies the rub.”
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“For me, a male image that I'm really moved by is somewhere between of Oscar Wilde type of a male: the fop, the long hair, the suits, too witty for his own good, incredibly smart, scathingly funny - all that. But then my other ideal is more like the Buddhist monk - the shaved head, actually someone who sublimates their sexuality.”
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“I have the most perfect belly button. When I stick my fingers in it, I feel a nerve in the center of my body shoot up my spine.”
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1998· 2 entries
“I'd like to think I am taking people on a journey; I am not just entertaining people, but giving them something to think about when they leave.”
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“A lot of people are just really confused by me; they don’t know what to think of me, so they try to compartmentalize me or diminish me. Maybe they just feel unsafe. But any time you have an overtly emotional or irrational, negative reaction to something, you’re fearing something that it’s bringing up in you.”
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1992· 1 entry
“I wanted to be a boy when I was growing up because I was in love with all of the male dancers I knew and they were all gay. And I thought, Well, if I was a boy, they'd love me. So I got into role-playing then. That's where it began. I remember when I was still in high school, I had cut my hair off really short, and I was totally anorexic - I had no boobs - and I would dress like a boy and go to gay clubs and my goal was to trick men into thinking I was a boy.”
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1991· 1 entry
“Fame is a by-product. Fame is something that should happen because you do work that speaks to people and people want to know about your work. Unfortunately the personality of people has taken over from the work and the artistry and it's this thing now that stands on its own. I don't think one should ever aspire to being famous.”
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1990· 1 entry
“Madonna has been incredibly important to the 1980s, musically... a little disco queen who... became an icon.”
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1966· 1 entry
Born 1966-06-22.
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