Juliette Binoche Quotes

I rarely need career advice because I don't have a career. No, that's not true. I can't really go far away while my kids are living with me.

One of our daughters is now a physician; another is a vice president of a major entertainment company; and the third is a clinical therapist. They place no limits on their ambitions, but for them, those ambitions also have had to fit within the context of having children.

The time I'm not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready to go back to work, I told them: It's all about the directors.

I love making movies, but I was ready to rationalize being only a mother if my career never got back on track.

I don't want only a career.

I think you can have your career and still bring to your family something very, very special. There are some people who are born mothers, who don't want to work and just want to stay at home, and that's fantastic, but for me it was something very difficult.

The biggest message I have for young women is, Don't start cutting off branches of your career tree unnecessarily early. Sometimes women say, I know I want to have a family or play in the local symphony, and they start pulling themselves out of their career path. You don't have to take yourself out of the running before you even start.

I work hard and try to combine a demanding career with motherhood.

I think it's possible to be a great mother and have a successful career. I like that more women are doing this.

I'm trying to have a family and a career.

My focus has to be on my career.

My first job now is as a mother, everything else is secondary. My kids understand that I am an actress, and they are always so surprised to hear my voice on a cartoon character, or see my face on a video box. If it ever gets to be too much though, the career and the kids, I will simply set the career aside.

I think the main thing that I've learned while working on 'Let's Stay Together' is how to balance mommyhood and working.

I highly recommend getting your career established first and then having children.

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

Birdie is amazing and such an incredible child and I'm having such a great time being a mom but I still want to have a career and I still look forward to auditions and parts, and when I don't get them I'm disappointed.

I love acting. But I love being a mother. To be a full mother and a full person, you have to do what you love, and that's acting. But I like the best of both worlds.

I'm trying to reestablish my career and do great work and give my kids the life they deserve.

The aim for me is to have a long career. I've got a couple of kids, and so I can't really be a fashion because I have to sustain a life for my children.

Sometimes I think I might have children while I'm still working, but then I think I'd better wait until I can give them all I want to give.

I kind of have never thought about a career path, which is an unusual approach.

My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.

I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.

Women have to take more control of their careers. They can't just wait to be cast in a film.

There have definitely been ebbs and flows in my career, but, you know, part of the reason is that I'm a mom. I have a five-year-old daughter. She really factors into my choices, and I never want to go too long without seeing her.