Juliette Binoche Quotes

"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."

"When I returned to France after winning the Oscar, I was treated like royalty, or like a football hero!"

"Giving birth is like a vase of beautiful flowers. Only you're just the vase, and only for a very short moment. The flowers are beautiful, but they belong to themselves, not to the vase."

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

"I knew I had become a star when I shook hands with
Simone Signoret at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival. She died four months later".

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

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

"If a star is someone who gives light, then I can be a star. But if a star is someone who goes after money and magazine covers then it's sick and I don't want it!"

"French women bloom at 40! I can't wait!"

"My earliest memory is loneliness. That's a hard thing to live with"

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!

"Going to South Africa (
In My Country) has changed me utterly. I have seen and heard about acts of cruelty and hatred which are hard to comprehend. But I've also seen peace and tranquility like nowhere else on earth".

"My real excitement comes when a movie transforms me. When you love the movie you've played in, you can make that bridge back to your own life."
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