Juliette Binoche Quotes

I want it to resonate: there's no rule for how to live your life. You can do things your own way.

I always wanted to beat my own path.

As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think.

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.

I won't work with people who won't give me the freedom to be me.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

I'm very big on doing my own thing.

I appreciate individualism.

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way.

I got into figure skating for the art of it, as well as the sport, and how much I love it. And, you know, I do everything that I want. I march to my own drummer. Sometimes people have an issue with that, and I can't control it.

I object to the actual phrase 'Follow me.' You've gotta be kidding! Why would I want to follow anybody else? Nor do I want them to follow me. The machinations of my life, the banalities - they're mine. They belong to me.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

Isn't a man someone who doesn't care about what others think? A man does whatever he wants.

I think everyone should be their own individualized person.

I like having the space of my own project.

I really believe in the power of playing by your own rules.

I think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability.

The first rule of survival is: Make your own rules. The hell anyone thinks about the way you're acting; listen only to yourself.

Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.

I will not live out of me I will not see with others' eyes My good is good, my evil ill I would be free.

You live alone, creating your life as you go.

Only on the surface of things have I ever trod the beaten path. So long as I could keep from hurting anyone else, I have lived, as completely as it was possible, the life of my choice. I have been free. . . . I have done the work I wished to do for the sake of that work alone.

When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.