Juliette Binoche Quotes
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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.
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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.
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My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living.
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My private life is very private, and I have chosen not to live in America or England, where you are so exposed and can't fight against it.
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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.
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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.
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I think the world would be much better if you always started the morning by calling the person you dreamt of during the night.
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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.
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My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles.
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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.
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I don't believe in coincidence.
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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.
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I've played journalists before Elles, 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.
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You must understand, I don't have to be happy to be happy.
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Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically.
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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.
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I want to make films that are political and social. Films with a message or an idea. Films that dare to ask.
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I would have loved to have met Marilyn Monroe and have dinner with her.
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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.
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The best mother is the mother who adapts, and the best children are the children who adapt as well.
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I love the unknown. I think because it brings fear, and to embrace fear is the best feeling.
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You make your own path as an actor. Nobody does it for you, so you have to invent yourself.
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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. 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.
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I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible.
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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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As an actress we don't beat one another. It's whoever's right for the part.
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I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do.
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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.
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As an actress, I think there is always a political consciousness there.
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If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.
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