Top 60 Juliette Binoche Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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

2. “I love the unknown. I think because it brings fear, and to embrace fear is the best feeling.”

— Juliette Binoche

3. “I’ve been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life.”

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4. “The strong is not the one who can put on the blades at a glance, and the one who is able to raise a smile from his knees!”

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

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6. “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.”

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7. “For me, habit is just a synonym for death.”

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8. “I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it’s one of my vices.”

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

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10. “I like independence, I like creating my own world, not being in a system. There are more possibilities, I think.”

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

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

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

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14. “I’m very down-to-earth and accessible, I think.”

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15. “It’s not a struggle to be on a diet. You feel lighter, and your spirit is lighter, too. But I love chocolate, and I allow myself to have chocolate. That doesn’t go against a diet for me.”

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16. “Changing someone’s life is not the best, is not wanting to change the other life. It is being who you are that changes another’s life. Do you understand?”

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17. “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.”

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18. “I have been proposed to four times. Twice at the beginning of a relationship and twice at the end of a relationship. I’ve never said no. I just didn’t give an answer!”

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19. “I’m not even aware of my success. Success is such an illusion.”

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20. “You make your own path as an actor. Nobody does it for you, so you have to invent yourself.”

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21. “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.”

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

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23. “I would have loved to have met Marilyn Monroe and have dinner with her.”

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24. “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.”

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25. “I think the world would be much better if you always started the morning by calling the person you dreamt of during the night.”

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26. “I would say I’m humanly engaged.”

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

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28. “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.”

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

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30. “A director could be 20 years old and an actor 60, or vice versa; it doesn’t matter. It’s about connecting sensibility and energy together, and having a vision that goes together and anchors the film as you go along.”

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31. “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.”

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32. “When you really put your heart in the work, you don’t think of how you look. And I think that’s the beauty of it.”

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33. “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.”

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

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35. “I won’t do something just for the sake of working.”

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36. “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.”

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37. “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.”

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38. “I don’t like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place.”

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39. “I am not a woman staying at home.”

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40. “It’s challenging as an actor to let go but I had some pleasure out of it too. To not have the effort of having to present myself is quite liberating.”

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

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42. “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.”

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43. “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.”

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44. “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.”

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45. “As an actress we don’t beat one another. It’s whoever’s right for the part.”

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46. “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.”

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47. “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.”

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48. “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.”

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49. “I really don’t think that the Oscar changed my career much because I didn’t want it to.”

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

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