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" I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image. "
Juliette Binoche
Image
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Looks
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" You must understand, I don't have to be happy to be happy. "
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" What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of 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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" 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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" I really don't think that the Oscar changed my career much because I didn't want it to. "
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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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" You make your own path as an actor. Nobody does it for you, so you have to invent yourself. "
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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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" 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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" Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically. "
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Tough
" 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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Were
Thought
" 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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Live
Accept
" People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go. "
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Truth Is
Nobody
People
" 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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Mystery
You
Know
" I move on stage differently. The more you act, anyway, the more you live, your perception of life becomes more and more accurate. "
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You
Perception
" 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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Think
" The best mother is the mother who adapts, and the best children are the children who adapt as well. "
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Best
Mother
Adapt
" 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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Passion
Place
Looking
" 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
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Against
" 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'm not even aware of my success. Success is such an illusion. "
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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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Ask
Dare
" I think I am pretty much melancholic. "
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Pretty
" I won't do something just for the sake of working. "
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" It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer. "
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" Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another. "
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You
" As an actress we don't beat one another. It's whoever's right for the part. "
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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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Never
" As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject we want to say to the world. "
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