Juliette Binoche famous quotes

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

#Travel #Crazy #Adventure

Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.
-- Juliette Binoche

#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.
-- Juliette Binoche

#Roots #People #Theatre

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.
-- Juliette Binoche

#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.
-- Juliette Binoche

#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.
-- Juliette Binoche

#Thinking #Europe #Age

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

#Past #Risk #Pages

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

#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.
-- Juliette Binoche

#Sometimes #Speak #Difficult

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

#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.
-- Juliette Binoche

#Struggle #Chocolate #Spirit

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.
-- Juliette Binoche

#Sleep #Cities #Doors

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.
-- Juliette Binoche

#Passion #Digging #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.
-- Juliette Binoche

#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.
-- Juliette Binoche

#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.
-- Juliette Binoche

#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.
-- Juliette Binoche

#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.
-- Juliette Binoche

#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.
-- Juliette Binoche

#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.
-- Juliette Binoche

#Moving #Being Single #Thinking

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

#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!
-- Juliette Binoche

#Time #Giving #Four

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.
-- Juliette Binoche

#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.
-- Juliette Binoche

#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.
-- Juliette Binoche

#Beautiful #Heart #Thinking

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

#Sake

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

#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.
-- Juliette Binoche

#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.
-- Juliette Binoche

#Flower #Thinking #Order

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

#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.
-- Juliette Binoche

#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.
-- Juliette Binoche

#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!
-- Juliette Binoche

#Smile #Strong #Keep Smiling

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

#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.
-- Juliette Binoche

#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.
-- Juliette Binoche

#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.
-- Juliette Binoche

#Car #Actresses #Gorgeous

I would say I'm humanly engaged.
-- Juliette Binoche

#Engagement

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

#Dinner #Mets

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

#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.
-- Juliette Binoche

#Goes On #Want #Lacking

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

#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.
-- Juliette Binoche

#Fighting #America #England

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

#Thinking #People #Actors

I don't believe in coincidence.
-- Juliette Binoche

#Believe #Coincidence

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

#Worry #Forgotten

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

#Thinking #Looks #Obsession

I think I am pretty much melancholic.
-- Juliette Binoche

#Thinking #I Am Pretty

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

#Simple #Thinking #Simple Things

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

#Sexy #Trying #Persons

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

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

#Character #Doors

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

#Acting #Needs #Shapes

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

#Acting #Onions #Layers

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.
-- Juliette Binoche

#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.
-- Juliette Binoche

#Journey #Play #Roles

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

#Actresses #Beats

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

#Thinking #Political #Actresses

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

#Sand #Great French

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

#Moving #Perception #Stage

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

#Believe #Giving #Important