Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

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

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

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

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

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

— Juliette Binoche

A director could be 20 years old and an actor 60, or vice versa; it doesn't matter. It's about connecting sensibility and…

— Juliette Binoche

I was used to theatre classes. I studied with my mother; she was a theatre teacher and directed, too, so it was…

— Juliette Binoche

You have to put your ego aside as an actor. Or you're using your ego to tell the story. Your body is…

— Juliette Binoche

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…

— 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

Sometimes I call directors. Sometimes I just meet with them. It just happens. It's not that I'm pushy. It comes naturally. But…

— 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

My private life is very private, and I have chosen not to live in America or England, where you are so exposed…

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I'm very patient and always willing to try things but I have some resistance as well because I have my own vision.…

— Juliette Binoche

I believe such illumination comes if you're open to the surprises the universe throws at you. You must be able to let…

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

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

I'm not a dancer, so I have to find a movement that belongs to me. I dance within my limits and with…

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

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

I take care of myself because I'm an actress and I have to take care of my body as it's my tool…

— Juliette Binoche

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

— 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

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and…

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

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

— Juliette Binoche

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

— 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…

— Juliette Binoche

I like travelling and if I have to come to Hollywood to make a movie I will, but otherwise I'd never move…

— 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

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