Juliette Quotes

I don't believe in coincidence.

Love exalts as much as glory does.

I could dispense with life sooner than with your love.

Rock'n'roll to me is a rebellion against the sterile pedestal culture of movies.

I think I can be beautiful with all the little stuff done, and I can be ugly. A lot of attractive actresses can't be ugly.

Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can't just say "hi". You say hi and people whisper "Man, did you see the way she said Hi. What an attitude."

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.

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

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

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

When I am dead, I am certain that the imprint of my love will be found on my heart. It is impossible to worship as I do without leaving some visible trace behind when life is over.

The abuse of love, like the abuse of health, brings suffering and death in its train.

I don't make an effort to be sloppy. I just don't consider a perfect hairdo and a perfect face to be beautiful. If I had my way I'd dress myself and do my own makeup for magazine shoots.

I collect clothes-they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed.

I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.

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 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.

Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication.

All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life.

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.

Music is kind of my everything.

Sometimes I can be on a cloud and then two hours later feel really small.

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.

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.

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

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