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" 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. "
Juliette Binoche
You
America
Against
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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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" I'm very down-to-earth and accessible, I think. "
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" Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance. "
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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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" 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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" 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 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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" 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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" 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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" There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share. "
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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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" People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go. "
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" I think I am pretty much melancholic. "
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" The best mother is the mother who adapts, and the best children are the children who adapt as well. "
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" Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes. "
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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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" If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better. "
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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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