Juliette Binoche Quotes - Page 3

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.

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

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 think I am pretty much melancholic.

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 was used to theatre classes. I studied with my mother; she was a theatre teacher and directed, too, so it was very family-like. Then I studied with a great teacher in Paris, and she was wonderful; she pushed me, but she was a warm soul.

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

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

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

When I won the Oscar, there was something telling me 'this isn't the truth'. I had to get back to real work.

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

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

The best mother is the mother who adapts, and the best children are the children who adapt as well.

You have to put your ego aside as an actor. Or you're using your ego to tell the story. Your body is a part of a tool to tell the story. So if you feel something, it's wrong. It means you're not inside of the character.

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.

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

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.

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.

I wanted to work with people from the world, with different minds and different visions.

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.

What I need is to express my passion for life... It's movement I'm interested in, the life in me, the life in humanity.

My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles.

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.