Juliette Binoche Quotes

I won't do something just for the sake of working.

Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.

What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.

The strong is not the one who can put on the blades at a glance, and the one who is able to raise a smile from his knees!

Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.

What makes a person sexy is when he's not trying to be sexy.

I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.

Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.

When you really put your heart in the work, you don't think of how you look. And I think that's the beauty of it.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

I love the unknown. I think because it brings fear, and to embrace fear is the best feeling.

I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life.

I like independence, I like creating my own world, not being in a system. There are more possibilities, I think.

I think the world would be much better if you always started the morning by calling the person you dreamt of during the night.

I never really worked in Hollywood. Some American producers came to Europe to shoot films with me, so it's a different situation... It was not my aim.

Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.

You must understand, I don't have to be happy to be happy.

You make your own path as an actor. Nobody does it for you, so you have to invent yourself.

Oh, I'll be forgotten too, don't worry.

My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living.

I would have loved to have met Marilyn Monroe and have dinner with her.

I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.

But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.

I like intensity. If it's too mellow, I feel like, bleah. I like intensity, because it's way of reaching spaces inside of you, and it's my need of knowledge, of knowing about myself regardless.

I'm very down-to-earth and accessible, I think.

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.

I don't believe in coincidence.

It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.

My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.

If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.

Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically.

Ive never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didnt choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go.

I'm a fighter as a mother. I'm fighting to be a mother, but I cannot say no to my passion because it's me, as well.

I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices.

My outlook on life is to be true. To take risks. To love the shadows as well as the light. To find your task. To recognise your task. To be active.

There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share.

I'm not a dancer, so I have to find a movement that belongs to me. I dance within my limits and with my imagination.

It's not a struggle to be on a diet. You feel lighter, and your spirit is lighter, too. But I love chocolate, and I allow myself to have chocolate. That doesn't go against a diet for me.

I'm not even aware of my success. Success is such an illusion.

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

Changing someone's life is not the best, is not wanting to change the other life. It is being who you are that changes another's life. Do you understand?

Some words, you know, it's amazing but some words would come only in French, and when I speak French, it would only come in English. And so the adjustment is very difficult sometimes.

I try to see my films just once. It's like a dream you've been through when it's been intense, and you just have to go through it once more just to make sure you've had it.

When you make a film, it's a bet. You don't know how the film is going to be, anyway.

George Clooney is trying his own way but he's struggling too because he has to deal with America. Yet, if he has a foot in Europe, it's not for nothing.

I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do.

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

I have been proposed to four times. Twice at the beginning of a relationship and twice at the end of a relationship. I've never said no. I just didn't give an answer!

Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now.