Catherine Deneuve Quotes

I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.

- Catherine Deneuve

Marriage is obsolete and a trap.

- Catherine Deneuve

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.

- Catherine Deneuve

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

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I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.

- Catherine Deneuve

To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.

- Catherine Deneuve

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

- Catherine Deneuve

Sex is a big question mark. It is something people will talk about forever.

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Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films.

- Catherine Deneuve

I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.

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I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.

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I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never.

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I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.

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I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.

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I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants.

- Catherine Deneuve

This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.

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Polanski was very precise. I think he still is.

- Catherine Deneuve

On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.

- Catherine Deneuve

I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless.

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I like all these little animals that run and eat and hide all the time. I like their faces, They seem to be scared and curious at the same time.

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I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them.

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It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.

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I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.

- Catherine Deneuve

To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored.

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Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.

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All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.

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I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else.

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Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.

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Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.

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There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

- Catherine Deneuve

You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.

- Catherine Deneuve

I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video.

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I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.

- Catherine Deneuve

In America you need a bodyguard to go out.

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Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.

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Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.

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I love to do very long and complicated scenes.

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It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone.

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A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.

- Catherine Deneuve

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

- Catherine Deneuve

Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.

- Catherine Deneuve

Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.

- Catherine Deneuve

People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable.

- Catherine Deneuve

Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that.

- Catherine Deneuve

I can be very critical on myself and on other people; I can be very demanding.

- Catherine Deneuve

I was never a dangerous woman. I'm not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away.

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I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working.

- Catherine Deneuve

I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.

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People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life.

- Catherine Deneuve

Lesbians and gays... they still have to fight, even inside. It's not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted.

- Catherine Deneuve

Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.

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You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.

- Catherine Deneuve

Some people fall in love with their co-stars and feel things that they never thought they would feel for them because they are touching.

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Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.

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I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.

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Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.

- Catherine Deneuve

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

- Catherine Deneuve

People expect a lot more from someone they think looks interesting. It's a burden.

- Catherine Deneuve

I choose my roles carefully.

- Catherine Deneuve

When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene.

- Catherine Deneuve

I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors.

- Catherine Deneuve

I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.

- Catherine Deneuve

Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.

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I have been involved in some films other actresses would not have done.

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I don't enjoy. I suffer from enjoying. It's very Christian.

- Catherine Deneuve

I think anything that has to do with sexuality makes people very interested.

- Catherine Deneuve

I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day.

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I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.

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You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.

- Catherine Deneuve

Bjork is a very original, interesting person. I like her very much.

- Catherine Deneuve