Juliette Binoche Quotes

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

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

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

“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

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

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

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

“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.”

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

“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.”

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

“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.”

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

“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

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

— Juliette Binoche

“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.”

— Juliette Binoche

“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

“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

“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.”

— Juliette Binoche

“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

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

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

“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

“As an actress, I think there is always a political consciousness there.”

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

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.

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

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

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“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

“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.”

— Juliette Binoche

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.

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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.

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“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!”

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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

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

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

— Juliette Binoche

“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!”

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

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“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.”

— Juliette Binoche

“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.”

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“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.”

— Juliette Binoche