Juliette Binoche Quotes

My private life is very private, and I have chosen not to live in America or England, where you are so exposed and can't fight against it.

It's challenging as an actor to let go but I had some pleasure out of it too. To not have the effort of having to present myself is quite liberating.

Usually I love preparing. It's really the time I prefer, because it's a time of reflection and of possibility of growth - to let it cook inside.

You have to have the courage to wait, to say no, ... And thats difficult. This job is very uncertain, and its frightening.

As an actor, I have to be fulfilled in the roles that I play; it has to be a journey for me to learn something or involve myself.

For me, acting goes to a special place; it's almost mystical. You have to let go of what you think is good; it's a jump into trust, and trying to reach without wanting too much.

Sometimes I call directors. Sometimes I just meet with them. It just happens. It's not that I'm pushy. It comes naturally. But I go ahead. I don't stay in my armchair, waiting for the phone to ring.

I wanted to work with people from the world, with different minds and different visions.

I like travelling and if I have to come to Hollywood to make a movie I will, but otherwise I'd never move there. It's very much an industry town and that doesn't really interest me.

I really don't think that the Oscar changed my career much because I didn't want it to.

I want to make films that are political and social. Films with a message or an idea. Films that dare to ask.

As an actress, I think there is always a political consciousness there.

Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay.

I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place.

I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image.

When I'm in the movie, I'm entirely in the movie. When I'm on the set, I'm 200 per cent there; when I'm at home, I'm 200 per cent at home.

I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women.

I am not a woman staying at home.

The thing is that I never felt beautiful. I really never did. I think I can change my looks and be different things, but I've never thought of myself as this face.

Fighting the ageing process just doesn't work. I think that actresses, ultimately, are responsible for the faces we give to women.

As an actress we don't beat one another. It's whoever's right for the part.

I like being a mother, and I want to be involved in my work, so I have to make choices. If you're a film actress, your career is from 20 to 45, but you can still dream.

I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible.

When I won the Oscar, there was something telling me 'this isn't the truth'. I had to get back to real work.

What I need is to express my passion for life... It's movement I'm interested in, the life in me, the life in humanity.

My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles.

I move on stage differently. The more you act, anyway, the more you live, your perception of life becomes more and more accurate.

I think I am pretty much melancholic.

I take care of myself because I'm an actress and I have to take care of my body as it's my tool in order to give in films.

As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject we want to say to the world.

I think it's the same simple thing for everyone - to be happy, and have love in your life.

The best mother is the mother who adapts, and the best children are the children who adapt as well.

If you told me tomorrow that I couldn't act anymore, it wouldn't bother me. I have only one wish: to meet the man of my life.

I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life... I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.