Catherine Deneuve famous quotes

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

#Time #Adventure #Opportunity

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

#Funny #Humor #Intelligent

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Love #Pregnancy #Suffering

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

#Dream #People #Acting

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

#Thinking #People #Sexuality

I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Done #Imagine #Physical Attraction

At a certain age, you have to choose between your face and your ass.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Age #Faces #Ass

I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Years #Half #Funny Travel

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

#Romantic Love #Cinema #Normal

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

#Bored #Stressed #Irritated

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

#Fame

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.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Hurt #Play #Might

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

#Men #People #Role Models

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

#Thinking #Action #Tire

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.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Pet #Looks #Rats

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

#People #Critical

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

#Mean #Giving #Actors

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.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Doctors #Bored #Waiting

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

#Divorce #Reason

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

#Good Life #Suffering #Live For Today

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

#Actresses #Done #Film

People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical,when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#People #Unconventional #Facts

I did important films when I was very young.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Important #Film #Young

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

#People #Film

You can tell how nervous I am by how fast I am talking!
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Talking #Nervous

But I never gave up personal things to work, never.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Gave Up

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.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Character #Enough #Hours

Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Mistake #Perfection #Littles

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

#People #Goes On #Private Life

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

#Art #Architecture #Painting

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

#Law #Actors #Film

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.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Important #Able #Different

I'm so popular it's scary sometimes. I suppose I'm just everybody's type.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Scary #Sometimes #Type

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

#Action

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

#Looks #Firsts #Scene

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

#Actresses #Film #Intense

It was mostly an aura about him (Gene Kelly). For me he was Hollywood. The way I'd imagined it as a child.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Children #Hollywood #Auras

The story is more important to me than the part.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Important #Stories

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

#Simple #Keys #Sometimes

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

#Sex #People #Forever

Polanski was very precise. I think he still is.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Thinking #Stills

It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Actors #Speak #Difficult

In America you need a bodyguard to go out.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#America #Needs #Bodyguard

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

#Producers #Belle #Protective

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

#Night #Mermaid #Special

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

#Fighting #Gay #Simple

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

#Character #Thinking #Numbers

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

#Knowing #Feelings #Trying

I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Guilty #Feels

I choose my roles carefully.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Roles

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.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Strong #Responsibility #Sense Of Responsibility

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

#Double Standard

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

#Restaurants #Queues

I love to do very long and complicated scenes.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Long #Complicated #Scene

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

#Art #Technology #Balance

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

#Long #Negative #Way

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

#Art #Taken #Soul

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.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Regret #Offering #Actors

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

#Strong #People #Vulnerable

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

#Life #Inspire #Private Life

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

#Character #Long #Waiting

A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Actors #Done

Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Theatre #Different #Actors

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

#Directors

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.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Taken #Games #Vampire

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

#Children #Afterlife #Actors

Marriage is obsolete and a trap.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Obsolete #Traps

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

#Husband #Blonde #Your Husband

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Writing #People #Lucky

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

#Actresses #Forget #Persons

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

#Thinking #Clothes #Style

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

#Giving #Important #Acting

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

#People #Feelings #Wonder

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.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Book #Hotel #Company

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.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Falling In Love #Stars #People

Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Actors #Enough

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

#Interesting #Persons

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

#Looks #Way #Actresses

The only human being I could tell everything was my sister Françoise. She and I were so diametrically different; put together we would have been a fantastic woman.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Together #Different #Fantastic

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

#Christian #Suffering #Enjoy

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

#Reality #Trouble #Prostitution

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

#Father #Obsession #Trouble

You'll be back. When the hunger knows no reason! And then you'll need to feed, and you'll need me to show you how.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Vampire #Needs #Hunger

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.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Running #Animal #Littles

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

#Thinking #People #Interesting

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

#Play #Today #Watches

Men are good but women are magic.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Men #Magic