Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

Usually I love preparing. It's really the time I prefer, because it's a time of reflection and of possibility of growth -…

— Juliette Binoche

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

— 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…

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live 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…

— Juliette Binoche

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

— 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…

— Juliette Binoche

But, you know, when I choose a film I need to believe in it and believe I can do something special with…

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

It's not a struggle to be on a diet. You feel lighter, and your spirit is lighter, too. But I love chocolate,…

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

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…

— 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…

— Juliette Binoche

I've played journalists before Elles, and I have good friends who are journalists. I think being an actor is not very far…

— 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…

— Juliette Binoche

The strong is not the one who can put on the blades at a glance, and the one who is able to…

— 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...…

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche