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" 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
Move
Will
Never
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" What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it. "
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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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" I love the unknown. I think because it brings fear, and to embrace fear is the best feeling. "
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" I wanted to work with people from the world, with different minds and different visions. "
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" You make your own path as an actor. Nobody does it for you, so you have to invent yourself. "
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" I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible. "
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" I really don't think that the Oscar changed my career much because I didn't want it to. "
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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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" I won't do something just for the sake of working. "
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" 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. "
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" I want to make films that are political and social. Films with a message or an idea. Films that dare to ask. "
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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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You
Try
" There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share. "
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Child
" 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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" 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. "
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Big
Place
Never
" 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'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'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image. "
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Image
Own
Looks
" Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion. "
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Famous
You
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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. "
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" I never really worked in Hollywood. Some American producers came to Europe to shoot films with me, so it's a different situation... It was not my aim. "
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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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" As an actress, I think there is always a political consciousness there. "
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" I'm very down-to-earth and accessible, I think. "
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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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" My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles. "
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" When I won the Oscar, there was something telling me 'this isn't the truth'. I had to get back to real work. "
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" I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life. "
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" It's not a struggle to be on a diet. You feel lighter, and your spirit is lighter, too. But I love chocolate, and I allow myself to have chocolate. That doesn't go against a diet for me. "
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Myself
Me