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" 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

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

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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 would say I'm humanly engaged. "

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" 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. "

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" When you make a film, it's a bet. You don't know how the film is going to be, anyway. "

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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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" 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. "

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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 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. "

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" I won't do something just for the sake of working. "

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" I think it's the same simple thing for everyone - to be happy, and have love in your life. "

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" For me, acting goes to a special place; it's almost mystical. You have to let go of what you think is good; it's a jump into trust, and trying to reach without wanting too much. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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" I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place. "

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" Some words, you know, it's amazing but some words would come only in French, and when I speak French, it would only come in English. And so the adjustment is very difficult sometimes. "

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

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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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" 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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" Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life. "

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" I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them. "

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" When I'm in the movie, I'm entirely in the movie. When I'm on the set, I'm 200 per cent there; when I'm at home, I'm 200 per cent at home. "

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" If you told me tomorrow that I couldn't act anymore, it wouldn't bother me. I have only one wish: to meet the man of my life. "

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" I'm a fighter as a mother. I'm fighting to be a mother, but I cannot say no to my passion because it's me, as well. "

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