Juliette Binoche Quotes

I thought that when you have more success that you'd feel more buoyed or feel more confident. But in fact my brain has the gift of switching it around and saying, 'Now people are expecting something. Now you're really going to let people down.'

People have this view, 'Oh, you're in movies, your life is so glamorous' but it can really suck.

I think one of my big struggles with being famous in my early 20s was that there was a constant running commentary telling me who I was.

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

The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.

No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere.

Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my perfect life. But behind the scenes, it was a struggle.

Being an actor is fantastic because you get to live your dreams and all of that, but I always think it's slightly irritating when you hear from the outside world, and people are like, 'Yeah, well, if I was an actor, and all I had to do was look good, I could be that ripped, too.'

I never really committed to being an actor. It never felt like it would be possible, I guess.

When you reach a certain age, and people see you on television, they look at you and think, 'Wow! Everything must be great!' Well, everything isn't always great. You can be hailed on the street corner, but you still have to go home and take out the garbage.

People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.

I'm an actor, so I'm never going to feel like I've done enough.

People see me for 30 seconds at a time, and they see someone who's got a hair and make-up team that put them together, and they're looking all right in the world, but it's not.

Unfortunately, when you're an actor you're like 'Ah, if the only knew.'

I don't even want to think of myself as an actor because it's such an insecure place to go.

I doubt I'm more secure than Meryl Streep... I guess actors just never feel secure.

When I was younger, I had a fear of being judged as a footballer, and my worst fear was feeling like I didn't belong at the level of football I was playing.

And there are lots of moments when I think, ‘What am I doing as an actor? I can’t act!’

We enjoy the expectations people have of us. The higher they are, the more pressure, the better we like it.

We're actors at the end of the day. I don't take it home with me. My experience outside of work, I love... when I hear wrap, it's the most exciting part of my day. I'm the first to have my make-up off, in the car, out. I've gotta go home. I want to get back to my life. I love it back there.

Being misunderstood is not a bad thing as an actor. I know the truth.

I don't really know how accepted I am. Nothing ever matters to me apart from the people with negative opinions. That's literally it. That always drives me on to the next thing. It's funny, you just focus on them and then the next movie. That's the only thing you're thinking about when it comes out.

In fact most of what we call anxiety is overconcern about what someone thinks of you.

As an actor, one is so appreciative when one is working. I think I am lucky that I have the opportunity to work having that total dependence on an external validation.

There's this great fantasy of going to work, every day, and getting to play out what people think my life is, as a successful actor.