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

Juliette Binoche

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" 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. "

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" I've played journalists before, and I have good friends who are journalists. I think being an actor is not very far from being a journalist. Because you investigate, you try to understand, you're asking questions, you're interested in the other. "

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" In a building with apartments, of course, you want to make connections. Life is easier that way. There's salt if you don't have salt; you can knock at someone's door, like in any city. But you know, you can hear the others, and you want to sleep, you get annoyed. "

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" I don't believe in coincidence. "

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" I think I am pretty much melancholic. "

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

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" For me, habit is just a synonym for death. "

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" 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. "

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

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" If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better. "

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

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

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

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" I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do. "

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" 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. "

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" When you really put your heart in the work, you don't think of how you look. And I think that's the beauty of it. "

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

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" Sometimes I call directors. Sometimes I just meet with them. It just happens. It's not that I'm pushy. It comes naturally. But I go ahead. I don't stay in my armchair, waiting for the phone to ring. "

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" 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. "

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" You must understand, I don't have to be happy to be happy. "

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