Best 84 quotes of Juliette Binoche on MyQuotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now.

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

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.

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.

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.

Changing someone's life is not the best, is not wanting to change the other life. It is being who you are that changes another's life. Do you understand?

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.

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.

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

For me, acting goes to a special place; it's almost mystical. You have to let go of what you think is good; it's a jump into trust, and trying to reach without wanting too much.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

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.

George Clooney is trying his own way but he's struggling too because he has to deal with America. Yet, if he has a foot in Europe, it's not for nothing.

I am not a woman staying at home.

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.

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.

I don't believe in coincidence.

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 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.

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!

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.

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.

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

I like travelling and if I have to come to Hollywood to make a movie I will, but otherwise I'd never move there. It's very much an industry town and that doesn't really interest me.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

In Iran, the women are like Italian women, they rule the house inside. But it's full of life. The history is very rich. The mystic of the Middle Ages. We have to learn from them. They influence all the philosophers when they came to Europe all those many many years ago.

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

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

I take care of myself because I'm an actress and I have to take care of my body as it's my tool in order to give in films.

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 think I am pretty much melancholic.

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

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.

It's challenging as an actor to let go but I had some pleasure out of it too. To not have the effort of having to present myself is quite liberating.