Quotes By Juliette Binoche

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

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.

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.

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

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.

I think I am pretty much melancholic.

I don't believe in coincidence.

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.