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" I like being a mother, and I want to be involved in my work, so I have to make choices. If you're a film actress, your career is from 20 to 45, but you can still dream. "

Juliette Binoche

Choices

You

Work

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Worry

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" I really don't think that the Oscar changed my career much because I didn't want it to. "

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

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I Am

Great

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

Juliette Binoche

Cast

Vices

" 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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You

Try

" I move on stage differently. The more you act, anyway, the more you live, your perception of life becomes more and more accurate. "

" The best mother is the mother who adapts, and the best children are the children who adapt as well. "

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

" You make your own path as an actor. Nobody does it for you, so you have to invent yourself. "

" I was used to theatre classes. I studied with my mother; she was a theatre teacher and directed, too, so it was very family-like. Then I studied with a great teacher in Paris, and she was wonderful; she pushed me, but she was a warm soul. "

" I am not a woman staying at home. "

Juliette Binoche

I Am

Woman

" I love the unknown. I think because it brings fear, and to embrace fear is the best feeling. "

" I don't believe in coincidence. "

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Believe

Coincidence

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

" 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. "

Juliette Binoche

Say

Fighting

" 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. "

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

" I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible. "

" Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes. "

" There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share. "

Juliette Binoche

Wanted

Child

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" 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. "

" I would say I'm humanly engaged. "