Quotes from 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I'm not even aware of my success. Success is such an illusion.

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.

It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.

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.

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.

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.

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?

What I need is to express my passion for life... It's movement I'm interested in, the life in me, the life in humanity.

I move on stage differently. The more you act, anyway, the more you live, your perception of life becomes more and more accurate.

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.

My private life is very private, and I have chosen not to live in America or England, where you are so exposed and can't fight against it.

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life... I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.

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.

Usually I love preparing. It's really the time I prefer, because it's a time of reflection and of possibility of growth - to let it cook inside.

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

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

Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.

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.