Juliette Binoche Quotes:

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

Topics: Travel, Crazy, Adventure, Crazy Life

Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.

Topics: Ideas, Sometimes, Attraction

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.

Topics: Roots, People, Theatre, New Family

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

Topics: Death, Habit, Synonym

But, you know, when I choose a film I need to believe in it and believe I can do something special with it, and after a while that means not trying to judge or analyze why I should do it. You have to follow this intuition thing, which is a mystery to me.

Topics: Believe, Mean, Judging

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.

Topics: Thinking, Europe, Age, Ripe Fruit

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

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Past, Risk, Pages

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

Topics: Ambition, Moments, Being True

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.

Topics: Sometimes, Speak, Difficult, Speaks French

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

Topics: Jobs, Character, Different

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.

Topics: Struggle, Chocolate, Spirit, Love Chocolates

In a building with apartments, of course, you want to make connections. Life is easier that way. There's salt if you don't have salt; you can knock at someone's door, like in any city. But you know, you can hear the others, and you want to sleep, you get annoyed.

Topics: Sleep, Cities, Doors, Want To Sleep

I want to know why I'm alive. I want to understand. It's like exploration; it's like someone being interested in a place and its history, digging into the earth and looking for it, searching - it's a passion.

source: - "Beauty and style secrets from our favourite French". www.stylist.co.uk.

Topics: Passion, Digging, Alive, I'm Alive

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.

Topics: Home, Cents

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.

Topics: Letting Go, Thinking, Acting

I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.

Topics: Believe, Acting, Actresses

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.

Topics: Europe, Hollywood, Different

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.

Topics: Knowing, Space, Needs

I've played journalists before, and I have good friends who are journalists. I think being an actor is not very far from being a journalist. Because you investigate, you try to understand, you're asking questions, you're interested in the other.

Topics: Good Friend, Thinking, Asking Questions

I need relationships, but sometimes when I am in one I feel claustrophobic. It is about feeling that I still have my freedom, that I have choices. I don't look back on the past because I like to live in the present. I know this makes some people think I probably never cared, but I need my freedom and I like to keep moving.

source: - Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

Topics: Moving, Being Single, Thinking

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

Topics: Beautiful, Ambition, Encounters

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!

Topics: Time, Giving, Four, Relationships Ending, Beginning Of Relationship

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.

Topics: Reflection, Growth, Possibility

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.

Topics: Character, Common, Film

There is a secret, I think. When you are front of a camera there is something that happens. Some relationship, some movement, some strange kind of suspension. That's where you find the layer in yourself that is duplicated in everyone. And when you get it right, if you can imagine all the hearts beating in one beat, it's like that. It's beautiful.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Beautiful, Heart, Thinking, Suspension

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

Topics: Sake, Implications

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

Topics: Vices, Casts

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.

Topics: Dream, Trying, Film

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.

Topics: Flower, Thinking, Order, Passing Through

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

Topics: Actors, Easy

I believe such illumination comes if you're open to the surprises the universe throws at you. You must be able to let go of the past, whatever success you may have seen, whatever your comfort, whatever your habits. To me, that's the key to loving life: Enabling yourself to step bravely into the unknown. Only there will you find yourself again.

Topics: Letting Go, Believe, Past

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.

Topics: Moving, Journey, Hollywood

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!

Topics: Smile, Strong, Keep Smiling, Strong People

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

Topics: Character, Being Sad, Tragedy

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

Topics: Jobs, Waiting, Uncertain

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.

source: - "'How Did I Survive My Childhood?'". Interview with Benjamin Secher, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 16, 2005.

Topics: Fall, Steps, Cameras

But I've never felt that being an actress is being in a comfortable place. It's seen from the outside that we're being driven in big cars and having these gorgeous suites and all of that. But come on, it's not about that.

Topics: Car, Actresses, Gorgeous, Big Cars

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

Topics: Engagement

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

Topics: Dinner, Mets

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

Topics: Thinking, Earth, Down To Earth

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

Topics: Goes On, Want, Lacking

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

Topics: Icons, Purpose

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.

Topics: Fighting, America, England

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

Topics: Thinking, People, Actors, Glamorous Life

I don't believe in coincidence.

Topics: Believe, Coincidence

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

Topics: Worry, Forgotten

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

Topics: Thinking, Looks, Obsession

I think I am pretty much melancholic.

Topics: Thinking, I Am Pretty

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

Topics: Simple, Thinking, Simple Things

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

Topics: Sexy, Trying, Persons, Sexiness

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

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

Topics: Character, Doors

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

source: - "Man in a 'Million'". Interview with Terry Pace, www.timesdaily.com. July 21, 2005.

Topics: Acting, Needs, Shapes

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

Topics: Acting, Onions, Layers, Peeling, Peeling An Onion

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.

Topics: Giving, Actors, World

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.

Topics: Journey, Play, Roles

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

Topics: Actresses, Beats

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

Topics: Thinking, Political, Actresses

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

Topics: Sand, Great French, French Woman

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

Topics: Moving, Perception, Stage, Perception Of Life

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

Topics: Believe, Giving, Important, Famous Actress

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

source: - Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2008.

Topics: Thinking, Feelings, Embrace

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.

source: - "Being Juliette Binoche" by Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2011.

Topics: Heart, Thinking, Looks

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

Topics: Morning, Night, Thinking

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

source: - "Interview: Juliette Binoche" by Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. March 28, 2005.

Topics: Book, Reading, Live Your Life, Hearing Music

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

source: - Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2008.

Topics: Doe, Actors, Path

Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance.

Topics: Mother, Real, Needs, Reassurance

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

source: - "Juliette Binoche Talks ‘Elles,’ Masturbation & her Upcoming Portrayal of Camille Claudel". Interview with Matt Mueller, www.indiewire.com. April 23, 2012.

Topics: Thinking, Creating, Independence, My Own World

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.

source: - Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

Topics: Risk, Shadow, Being True

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.

Topics: Giving, Answers, Film

A director could be 20 years old and an actor 60, or vice versa; it doesn't matter. It's about connecting sensibility and energy together, and having a vision that goes together and anchors the film as you go along.

source: - "Juliette Binoche Talks ‘Elles,’ Masturbation & her Upcoming Portrayal of Camille Claudel". Interview with Matt Mueller, www.indiewire.com. April 23, 2012.

Topics: Years, Anchors, Vision

In Iran, the women are like Italian women, they rule the house inside. But it's full of life. The history is very rich. The mystic of the Middle Ages. We have to learn from them. They influence all the philosophers when they came to Europe all those many many years ago.

source: - Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

Topics: Italian, House, Age

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.

Topics: Beautiful, Thinking, Different

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

Topics: Illusion

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.

Topics: Passion, Humanity, Needs

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

Topics: Children, Share, Unsaid

I don't think I'm a perfect mother. I think I'm trying my best. I think it's complicated, it's difficult. I think I'm learning from my kids so much to be their mother. I don't think you're born a mother, I think you become a mother.

source: - Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

Topics: Mother, Kids, Thinking

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.

source: - Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

Topics: Imagination, Dancer, My Imagination

I'm very patient and always willing to try things but I have some resistance as well because I have my own vision. I have resistance sometimes because I see a director who's freaking out and wants to have control and they sometimes anticipate about what I'm going to be doing or not.

source: - "Juliette Binoche Talks ‘Elles,’ Masturbation & her Upcoming Portrayal of Camille Claudel". Interview with Matt Mueller, www.indiewire.com. April 23, 2012.

Topics: Vision, Trying, Directors, Willing To Try, Freaking Out

I am not a woman staying at home.

source: - "Juliette Binoche’s Body And Being" by Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 17, 2013.

Topics: Home, Staying

For me, real, truthful moments come from a place that I don't know. If somebody was telling me, "You're going to lift your face like this, you're going to do this..." No! I don't want to know. Just let me live it.

source: - "Juliette Binoche Talks ‘Elles,’ Masturbation & her Upcoming Portrayal of Camille Claudel". Interview with Matt Mueller, www.indiewire.com. April 23, 2012.

Topics: Real, Want, Faces

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

Topics: Fighting, Thinking, Giving

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.

source: - "Interview: Juliette Binoche On ‘Sils Maria,’ The Career/Life Balance & Finally Going Hollywood In ‘Godzilla’" by Jessica Kiang, www.indiewire.com. December 11, 2013.

Topics: Mother, Passion, Fighting

I was used to theatre classes. I studied with my mother; she was a theatre teacher and directed, too, so it was very family-like. Then I studied with a great teacher in Paris, and she was wonderful; she pushed me, but she was a warm soul.

source: - Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2008.

Topics: Mother, Teacher, Class

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.

Topics: Mother, Dream, Careers

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

Topics: Film, Know How, Knows

You have to put your ego aside as an actor. Or you're using your ego to tell the story. Your body is a part of a tool to tell the story. So if you feel something, it's wrong. It means you're not inside of the character.

source: - Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

Topics: Character, Mean, Ego

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.

source: - Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

Topics: Giving, Care, Film

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.

Topics: Phones, Waiting, Directors, Pushy

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

source: - "Interview: Juliette Binoche On ‘Sils Maria,’ The Career/Life Balance & Finally Going Hollywood In ‘Godzilla’" by Jessica Kiang, www.indiewire.com. December 11, 2013.

Topics: People, Vision, Mind, Different Minds

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

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Ideas, Political, Messages

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

Topics: Thinking, Careers, Want

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

Topics: Real, Oscars, Real Work

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.

source: - "Juliette Binoche Talks ‘Elles,’ Masturbation & her Upcoming Portrayal of Camille Claudel". Interview with Matt Mueller, www.indiewire.com. April 23, 2012.

Topics: Struggle, Europe, Feet

You have to be very cautious about what you are doing for charity and things like that. I think you have to start with your life. I think that's what life is expecting you to do. In your family, in your surroundings, in your work life, in the people you're with, your relationships; how you behave and doing what you need to accomplish. That for me is being a hero every day of your life.

source: - "Juliette Binoche in Ann Arbor starring in 'Antigone'". Interview with John Monaghan, www.usatoday.com. October 12, 2015.

Topics: Hero, Thinking, People, Being A Hero

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

Topics: Stars, Los Angeles, Aim

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.

source: - "I have only one wish: to meet the man of my life" by Dafydd Goff, www.theguardian.com. September 04, 2008.

Topics: Men, Wish, Tomorrow

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?

Topics: Life Is, Who You Are

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

source: - "Juliette Binoche On ‘Sils Maria,’ The Career/Life Balance & Finally Going Hollywood In ‘Godzilla’" by Jessica Kiang, www.indiewire.com. December 11, 2013.

Topics: Mother, Children, Best Mother

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.

source: - "Juliette Binoche Talks ‘Elles,’ Masturbation & her Upcoming Portrayal of Camille Claudel". Interview with Matt Mueller, www.indiewire.com. April 23, 2012.

Topics: Letting Go, Effort, Challenges

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.

source: - "Juliette Binoche: 'These tabloid stories, it feels like being in a bad soap opera'". Interview with Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2012.

Topics: Writing, One Day, Together, Maybe One Day

My experience has nothing to do with creation, I don't think, even though maturity is helpful. In a creation process, there's an intuition that takes you and if it's nourished with awareness and experience, it's great.

source: - "Juliette Binoche Talks ‘Elles,’ Masturbation & her Upcoming Portrayal of Camille Claudel". Interview with Matt Mueller, www.indiewire.com. April 23, 2012.

Topics: Maturity, Thinking, Intuition