Juliette Binoche Quotes - Page 2

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.

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

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

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

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

When I'm in the movie, I'm entirely in the movie. When I'm on the set, I'm 200 per cent there; when I'm at home, I'm 200 per cent at home.

The thing is that I never felt beautiful. I really never did. I think I can change my looks and be different things, but I've never thought of myself as this face.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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'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.

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.

I am not a woman staying at home.

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

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

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.

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.

Ive never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didnt choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

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