Quotes By Juliette Binoche

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.

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

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 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 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.

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

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.

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.

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

I don't believe in coincidence.

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