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. – Juliette Binoche
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. – Juliette Binoche
I have stories that I’d like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together. – Juliette Binoche
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. – Juliette Binoche
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. – Juliette Binoche
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. – Juliette Binoche
I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women. – Juliette Binoche
I wanted to work with people from the world, with different minds and different visions. – Juliette Binoche
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. – Juliette Binoche
Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it’s just an illusion. – Juliette Binoche
There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share. – Juliette Binoche
If you have everything, then you don’t want to go on. It’s the lacking that makes you search for something better. – Juliette Binoche
You make your own path as an actor. Nobody does it for you, so you have to invent yourself. – Juliette Binoche
My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles. – Juliette Binoche
When you make a film, it’s a bet. You don’t know how the film is going to be, anyway. – Juliette Binoche
Some words, you know, it’s amazing but some words would come only in French, and when I speak French, it would only come in English. And so the adjustment is very difficult sometimes. – Juliette Binoche
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. – Juliette Binoche
People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go. – Juliette Binoche
When I won the Oscar, there was something telling me ‘this isn’t the truth’. I had to get back to real work. – Juliette Binoche
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. – Juliette Binoche
Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films – as if all my characters were sisters – but I’m not so sure now. – Juliette Binoche
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. – Juliette Binoche
