Juliette Binoche Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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, 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.