Top 50 Juliette Binoche Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

I don’t believe in coincidence.

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

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.

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

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

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.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

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

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

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.

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 I am pretty much melancholic.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life… 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 played journalists before, 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.

Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.

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

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

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

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.