Quotes from Juliette Binoche

I like intensity. If it's too mellow, I feel like, bleah. I like intensity, because it's way of reaching spaces inside of you, and it's my need of knowledge, of knowing about myself regardless.

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

I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women.

I am not a woman staying at home.

There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

When I won the Oscar, there was something telling me 'this isn't the truth'. I had to get back to real work.

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

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

Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically.

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

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

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

You have to have the courage to wait, to say no, ... And thats difficult. This job is very uncertain, and its frightening.

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

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

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