Quotes By Juliette Binoche

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Oh, I'll be forgotten too, don't worry.

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

Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.

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

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

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

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.

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