Juliette Binoche Quotes

You know when people leave a job, and they say they didn't know what they came away with after two years? That's how I felt when I first left Google.

I worked as a parking lot attendant for a while and a delivery boy and two or three other things, but none of them seemed just right.

I don't love being an actor, but I'm not qualified to be anything else. I was an auto mechanic and drove a tow truck and tried to go to school to be a paramedic.

I don't know if I'm going to be a manager forever. I don't know if I'm going to be producing films or television shows.

Another occupation might have been better.

I thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other things too, and what if I got interested in history or the law?

All of my girlfriends have been actors, and I've realized that maybe it's not for me - and find something else outside of the industry.

Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

I don't know if I will be acting all my life, honestly.

The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.

What I love about my job is challenging myself and finding weird, different roles.

I'd had a variety of jobs - shop assistant, writer of children's magazines - but had found myself, funnily enough, as quite an uninformed sports journalist so I might have stuck with that, but I would never have been very good at it.

I did everything, I thought I was going to be in marketing, then I thought advertising then I thought I was going to be an architect and then I was like 'you know what, let me just be a soap star!'

I think I made the wrong career choice

I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.

I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.

As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions.

I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did.

Sometimes I think it'd be fun to do a completely different job for a while. You've got one life and you do the same job for the whole of it, and you think - was that a good use of a life?

Before I was an actor, I was never able to hold a job for more than 3 months for some reason. It just wouldn't hold my interest, so there was some way that I wound up quitting or getting fired from it. But being an actor is perfect, because movies usually take about three months to shoot. Then it's over and they say, 'Hey, great job!'

I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff.

I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.

I did plenty of jobs that I hated. I was a bank teller and terrible at it. I parked cars, a valet. I answered phones. I somehow avoided being a waiter. I knew I wouldn't be able to keep the order straight. I'm not much of a multi-tasker.

I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.

I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.