Juliette Binoche Quotes

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 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.

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

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 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 like independence, I like creating my own world, not being in a system.

There are more possibilities, I think.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

Fighting the ageing process just doesn't work.

I think that actresses, ultimately, are responsible for the faces we give to women.

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

I've never thought of my characters as being sad.

On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

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.

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 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.

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.

You have to have the courage to wait, to say no, .

.. And thats difficult. This job is very uncertain, and its frightening.

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

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

When I won the Oscar, there was something telling me 'this isn't the truth'.

I had to get back to real work.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I am not a woman staying at home.