Juliette Binoche Quotes

I'm not the best at expressing my feelings other than in songs or on paper.

I think children in general have a very hard time - at least I did - expressing any pain because I didn't want to hurt the people that I loved.

My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

As a child I was not allowed to express my feelings, so I had to go back through therapy and express the child's pain.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

I'm used to playing characters who have a lot to say but don't know how to say it.

I want people to feel the times where they don't feel good. You should dive into those emotions, because that's what I do with my music.

For a long time, I couldn't cry on stage. I cried very rarely as a child.

For a long time, I couldn't tell somebody how I felt or I couldn't talk about my problems because I felt like I was complaining. Writing would help me or it would be like, I can't tell you how I feel, but I can play you a song.

There's so much stuff that you see every day that you want to talk about, but I'm not the type to open up, so the only way I could open up is through music.

The first song I wrote, when I was 8, was about feeling really angry - like the weight of everything on my shoulders.

For me, music is about expressing the inexpressible, and as I get older, man, what I feel the need to express becomes less and less poignant to others.

What cannot be said, will get wept.

I felt like that growing up - that I didn't have a voice.

I do not want to have feelings that are just for me that I cannot express to other people. That frustrates me.

I think there's something very valid about having feelings that you can't articulate. I don't think you should shut those feelings out, but I also want to be able to communicate them.

I write about what is getting to me at the time, about the things you need to talk about, but which would sound silly if you sat down and told them to your friend. I only write for myself, to get my emotions out. It's self-therapeutic.

It's never been easy for me to express how I feel in situations where I know I have something to lose.

'Supermodel' was a hard record for me; it was an emotional record to write. I was purging a lot of stuff with that album, and I think the one thing I didn't really consider, that I'd be supporting it for two years and living in that state of mind every night.

I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine because they were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood.

Though my heart is filled with feelings I want to convey You see, I can't express them in words If I had not met you I wouldn't even have such an embarrassing pain

Music is an expression of what's inside of you. And that's how I make music.

Then I went to bed and cried into my pillow. I wasn't sad, not at all. It was just so beautiful to have an intense feeling and the right words at the same time. What are we but our stories?

She can never tell him what she started to say: that we come to love those who save us. For although Anna does believe this is true, the word that stuck in her throat was not save but shame.