Juliette Binoche Quotes

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

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.

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'm not a dancer, so I have to find a movement that belongs to me. I dance within my limits and with my imagination.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.

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.

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

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?

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I am not a woman staying at home.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 don't believe in coincidence.

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

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.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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