Juliette Binoche Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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'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.

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

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

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I've played journalists before Elles, 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.

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

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

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

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.

I think I am pretty much melancholic.

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.

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.