Deneuve Binoche Quotes

I don't believe in coincidence. ~ Juliette Binoche

Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough. ~ Catherine Deneuve

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me. ~ Catherine Deneuve

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. ~ Juliette Binoche

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. ~ Juliette Binoche

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

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. ~ Juliette Binoche

My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money. ~ Juliette Binoche

A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day. ~ Catherine Deneuve

My experience has nothing to do with creation, I don't think, even though maturity is helpful. In a creation process, there's an intuition that takes you and if it's nourished with awareness and experience, it's great. ~ Juliette Binoche

On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me. ~ Catherine Deneuve

I like working with directors much, because I want to be able to give myself completely to their vision. Otherwise I would only do what I could do, again and again. I want to be taken by someone in a different direction. ~ Catherine Deneuve

I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never. ~ Catherine Deneuve

Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically. ~ Juliette Binoche

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. ~ Juliette Binoche

I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring. ~ Catherine Deneuve

I love to not work. I love to go to the movies, I like to travel ... I think I work maybe half the year. Sometimes, people think I've done three films in a year, but it's because I did a participation in a film. But I work for half a year, no more. ~ Catherine Deneuve

I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place. ~ Juliette Binoche

I'm afraid of being too sure, to just deliver. I think that's the biggest danger for actors - after a certain time, when you're known and recognised, people expect you to do what you're supposed to do, and there's almost no more criticism and that's very dangerous. ~ Catherine Deneuve

I like intensity. If it's too mellow, I feel like, bleah. I like intensity, because it's way of reaching spaces inside of you, and it's my need of knowledge, of knowing about myself regardless. ~ Juliette Binoche

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

I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important. ~ Catherine Deneuve

To an Ohio boy, it represented world-weary Gallic shrugs and Gauloises cigarettes, existentialist thinkers in berets and Catherine Deneuve in nothing at all - French was the language of intellectual power and effortless sex appeal. ~ Michael Dirda

I would say I'm humanly engaged. ~ Juliette Binoche

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. ~ Juliette Binoche

I think I will always feel a special relationship with The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, because for me it was something very, very special. It was a modern opera, and to play the heroine in a film that became such a success at a young age, and learning from him when I was so young and impressionable - really it was one of my most important experiences. ~ Catherine Deneuve

Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion. ~ Juliette Binoche

I love to do very long and complicated scenes. ~ Catherine Deneuve

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. ~ Juliette Binoche

I like independence, I like creating my own world, not being in a system. There are more possibilities, I think. ~ Juliette Binoche

I don't know Hollywood very well. I've never lived in Los Angeles or New York. But what I can see in Paris, where I live, is that actresses like Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Charlotte Rampling, still get the chance to play strong, sexy roles even though they're not 20. ~ Monica Bellucci

As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris and say the name Catherine Deneuve or Brigitte Bardot, or L.A. and the name Marilyn Monroe, it's like standing in Athens, or anywhere in wide-flung Greece, and saying Aliki Vougiouklaki. A huge star - and so little known elsewhere in the world. ~ Ali Smith

Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor. ~ Catherine Deneuve