Catherine Deneuve Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I admire Cate Blanchett and Kate Winslet. I like a lot of comedians. I like Cameron Diaz - she's funny and has a very light spirit. That's quite rare nowadays. There are many actresses I admire.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I did important films when I was very young.

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

I like working with directors much, because I want to be able to give myself completely to their vision. Otherwise I would only do what I could do, again and again. I want to be taken by someone in a different direction.

It is very fashionable for good-looking ladies to say how hard it is to be beautiful, but that's not true. There are times when itdepresses and bothers me to see just how easy things are made for a beautiful woman.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

You can tell how nervous I am by how fast I am talking!

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

Men are good but women are magic.

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

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

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.

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

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.

Marriage is obsolete and a trap.

Most of the time I've worked with directors who write their own scripts. The story is more important to me than the part. The project of the film has always been more important to me.

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

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

I'm afraid of being too sure, to just deliver. I think that's the biggest danger for actors - after a certain time, when you're known and recognised, people expect you to do what you're supposed to do, and there's almost no more criticism and that's very dangerous.

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

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.

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

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

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

I love to do very long and complicated scenes.

I love to not work. I love to go to the movies, I like to travel ... I think I work maybe half the year. Sometimes, people think I've done three films in a year, but it's because I did a participation in a film. But I work for half a year, no more.

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

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.

Sometimes, just to give the impression that you have the strength and the vitality demands a lot. You can't always give that impression when you have heels and a wig on and it's 40 degrees outside.

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

Polanski was very precise. I think he still is.

I choose my roles carefully.

I am frivolous. But sometimes, that's the problem of my Christian education, when I know I've been frivolous, and I know I have to do it, then I feel guilty.

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

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

I think I will always feel a special relationship with The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, because for me it was something very, very special. It was a modern opera, and to play the heroine in a film that became such a success at a young age, and learning from him when I was so young and impressionable - really it was one of my most important experiences.

Getting older is not nice for anyone, not for men, not for women, and even more difficult for people who depend on their physical appearance. But it's not a drama. I know some people who are much more stressed than I am. And also, I live in Europe; I think it would be much more difficult if I lived in America.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Sometimes, if you're shooting a complicated scene, you have to stay in a position and wait for the technician to do his job, and then you have to be where you're supposed to be, right on the spot. You don't rehearse all that much on films. If I think of the amount of time I spend on set compared with the time spent shooting, it's ridiculously short.

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