Juliette Binoche
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Juliette Binoche (born March 9, 1964) is a French film actress.
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- I am full of doubts ... 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.
- As quoted in "How did I survive my childhood?" in The Telegraph (16 December 2005)
- I think the characters I play go through tunnels, like in Three Colours : Blue, for example, where she’s lost everything ... In The English Patient, she loses her best friend; this patient is dying in front of her – there’s no hope, so she’s going to start from the bottom. In films we see extremes, because it’s where you have turning points. 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.
- As quoted in "Emotional Intelligence" by James Mottram, in The Sunday Herald (8 January 2006)
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- 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!
- 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.
