Juliette Binoche Quotes

I think if you work as an actress and are supposed as a character to be in love with some actor, then to some extent you do have to be in love with him.

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.

The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you're going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can't do it any other way. But you don't carry it beyond the set.

Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in.

The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.

I live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with.

As an actor, you are always someone else's tool. You can have a connection with them, and you can share their point of view, but ultimately, you are helping them reflect.

As actors, we often look for the scene, big moments that say, 'This is why you have to do this role.'

I think my concerns are the same as every actor. Can I find this character and make it come to life properly?

The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.

It's always a mystery when you're going into a role - 'Here's your wife of 40 years and... action!' How do you create ease or chemistry or whatever is supposed to exist?

As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

I want to break into the acting industry. It's something I have a great deal of respect for; it's a passion of mine. It's so amazing, the differences between acting and being an athlete, but the one commonality is they both evoke emotion in the viewer. And those emotions are real. So I think that's pretty cool.

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do, but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

As an actor, you are in a unique position because you're not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of good writing.

I love an acting challenge, and I love getting to sit down with my script and do all my drama work.

Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.

What I learned about acting is that you become the character, like I became 'Timothy Green.'

A lot of what acting is paying attention.

I think acting really helps as a director. It's just no question, because you totally understand the acting process.

Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing.

Actors are responsible to the people we play.