Juliette Binoche Quotes

I believe in the importance of seeking self-knowledge. The more I know myself, the more I feel empowered.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

Yeah, it is, because it's a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That's what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.

We can’t be what we don’t know.

I want people to find their inner depth.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying and all the things that I grew up writing about, I want to write about deeper things.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually happening.

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

You discover yourself through the research of your work.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.