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" I would have loved to have met Marilyn Monroe and have dinner with her. "
Juliette Binoche
Dinner
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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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" 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 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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" 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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" I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image. "
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" As an actor, I have to be fulfilled in the roles that I play; it has to be a journey for me to learn something or involve myself. "
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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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" My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles. "
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" Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes. "
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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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" I am not a woman staying at home. "
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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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" 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 never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do. "
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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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" 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 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. "
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" Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life. "
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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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" 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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" For me, habit is just a synonym for death. "
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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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" My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money. "
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" I wanted to work with people from the world, with different minds and different visions. "
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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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" You must understand, I don't have to be happy to be happy. "
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" I want to know why I'm alive. I want to understand. It's like exploration; it's like someone being interested in a place and its history, digging into the earth and looking for it, searching - it's a passion. "
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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 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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" 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. "
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