Juliette Binoche quotes Her role as Hana in 'The English Patient' (1996) Born: 03/09/1964 Country: france

• Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically. (Juliette Binoche) [business]
• As an actress we don't beat one another. It's whoever's right for the part. (Juliette Binoche) [right]
• Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes. (Juliette Binoche) [attraction/willpower/]
• Because I want to tell a story I believe in, and at the moment, the Hollywood scripts I've been reading didn't feel like that. (Juliette Binoche) [moment/reading]
• 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)
• Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion. (Juliette Binoche) [being/give/being]
• But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit. (Juliette Binoche) [think/europe/age]
• 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. (Juliette Binoche) [being/being/being]
• But the questions about someone's personal life in interviews are so related to outside concerns that I say no to them. (Juliette Binoche) [life]
• But, you know, when I choose a film I need to believe in it and believe I can do something special with it, and after a while that means not trying to judge or analyze why I should do it. You have to follow this intuition thing, which is a mystery to me. (Juliette Binoche) [film/follow/thing]
• 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. (Juliette Binoche) [theatre/roots/people/family]
• 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) [film]
• For me, habit is just a synonym for death. (Juliette Binoche) [habit/death]
• I adore chocolate. But then just lately I started to become allergic to it, so I've had to be careful. Apart from all that, life is wonderful. So it's really a small sacrifice. (Juliette Binoche) [life]
• I also want my children to find their own way in life and I want to pursue the idea that being in a couple is possible. (Juliette Binoche) [find/life/being]
• 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. (Juliette Binoche) [being/being/movie/life]
• I didn't want to repeat the same old things you see with sex scenes in so many films. (Juliette Binoche) [sex]
• I don't believe in coincidence. (Juliette Binoche)
• I learned a lot last year about the current difficulties in independent film making. Money is promised one minute and gone the next. I was bitterly disappointed about Scheherazade. It was one of the best scripts I have ever read. (Juliette Binoche) [film/money]
• I like travelling and if I have to come to Hollywood to make a movie I will, but otherwise I'd never move there. It's very much an industry town and that doesn't really interest me. (Juliette Binoche) [movie/willpower/interest]
• 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) [present/past]
• I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do. (Juliette Binoche) [being/movie/thing]
• 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 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. (Juliette Binoche) [think/order/give/more]
• I think I am pretty much melancholic. (Juliette Binoche) [think]
• I think it's the same simple thing for everyone - to be happy, and have love in your life. (Juliette Binoche) [think/thing/love/life]
• I think one day I'll get married, but I don't know. (Juliette Binoche) [think/day]
• I think the characters I play go through tunnels, like in Three Colours: Blue, for example, where she's lost everything. (Juliette Binoche) [think]
• 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. (Juliette Binoche) [more]
• I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices. (Juliette Binoche)
• I won't do something just for the sake of working. (Juliette Binoche)

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