Juliette Binoche Quotes

The strong is not the one who can put on the blades at a glance, and the one who is able to raise a smile from his knees!

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

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

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

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.

Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.

I think the world would be much better if you always started the morning by calling the person you dreamt of during the night.

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

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

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

I don't believe in coincidence.

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

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

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

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

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.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

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

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.

I like intensity. If it's too mellow, I feel like, bleah. I like intensity, because it's way of reaching spaces inside of you, and it's my need of knowledge, of knowing about myself regardless.

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.

My outlook on life is to be true. To take risks. To love the shadows as well as the light. To find your task. To recognise your task. To be active.

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 and its history, digging into the earth and looking for it, searching - it's a passion.

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.