Quotes by Juliette Binoche

About Juliette Binoche:

Juliette Binoche is a French actress, artist and dancer. She has appeared in more than 40 feature films, been recipient of numerous international awards, and has appeared on stage and in movies across the world. Coming from an artistic background, she began taking acting lessons during adolescence. After performing in several stage productions, she began acting in films by auteur directors Jean-Luc Godard (Hail Mary, 1985), Jacques Doillon (Family Life, 1985) and André Téchiné, who made her a star in France with the leading role in his 1985 drama Rendez-vous. Her sensual performance in her English-language debut The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), directed by Philip Kaufman, launched her international career.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

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

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

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

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.

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 never really worked in Hollywood. Some American producers came to Europe to shoot films with me, so it's a different situation... It was not my aim.

Juliette Binoche

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

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

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

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.

Juliette Binoche

I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.

Juliette Binoche

I think I am pretty much melancholic.

Juliette Binoche

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

Juliette Binoche

Oh, I'll be forgotten too, don't worry.

Juliette Binoche

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.

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

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

Juliette Binoche

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

Juliette Binoche

I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices.

Juliette Binoche

I want to make films that are political and social. Films with a message or an idea. Films that dare to ask.

Juliette Binoche

Author Bio

  • NameJuliette Binoche
  • DescriptionFrench actress
  • BornMarch 9, 1964
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionActor; Film Actor
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Supporting Actress