Juliette Binoche Quotes

It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.

For all the acting you can do, the actual soul of someone does somehow permeate through their work.

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

So many actors get caught up in their technique, and to be honest, I see it really getting in the way. I see them forcing things. I definitely do my best work when I'm free of that. But I think as an actor, I work really hard in preparing the roles.

One of the things I've learned over the years is that you only do what you can do as an actor. You do the best job you can, but you have no control over so many elements that are going to determine the outcome of that film. I never pay attention to what happens after.

The worst acting is about imitation.

Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty.

If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.

Sometimes when you're acting, you only need a little bit of something to sort of channel or, you know, transport into a place.

You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.

I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.

I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.

As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.

The lens is the actor's best critic... showing his mind more clearly than on the stage. You can get wonderful cooperation out of the lens if you are true, but God help you if you are not.

It's all about doing work, being creative and staying true to who you are and having fun. That's what us actors are all about.

I like to feel that something's alive in acting, like something's really going on.

I don't work out a lead section and practice it for a day and then lay it down. I don't do that. The first time I do something I think is expressive or really cool, that's what's actually on the recording.

A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don't want to inject too much of your own personality. What you sacrifice then is a slight mystery.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

Our impulse as people is to try to control; as an actor, you have to give up that control.

I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.

The best thing an actor can bring to a role is himself - that's no secret.