Top 100 Catherine Deneuve Quotes
#1. I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.
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#2. 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.
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#3. All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.
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#4. People expect a lot more from someone they think looks interesting. It's a burden.
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#6. 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.
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#8. 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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#10. People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life.
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#11. 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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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.
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#16. I know who I am, how I was. I don't want to know how I will be because nobody knows that.
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#17. There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.
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#19. I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors.
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#20. Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.
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#21. 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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#22. Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.
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#23. I can be very critical on myself and on other people; I can be very demanding.
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#25. 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.
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#26. I would love to work with Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I think they're wonderful actors.
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#27. When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene.
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#29. 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.
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#30. What I do is I come in the morning and get involved in the character, but I'm always very pleased to leave it at night and have my life.
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#31. 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.
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#32. 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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#33. People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical,when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life.
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#34. Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.
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#35. 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.
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#36. I was never a dangerous woman. I'm not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away.
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#37. At a certain age, you have to choose between your face and your ass.
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#38. It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.
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#39. I think one of the few times I've been involved with real-life characters was the story of Marie Bonaparte. I think it's really difficult to become someone that really existed.
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#41. I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
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#42. I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working.
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#43. I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.
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#44. I think anything that has to do with sexuality makes people very interested.
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#45. 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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#46. Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films.
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#47. It was mostly an aura about him (Gene Kelly). For me he was Hollywood. The way I'd imagined it as a child.
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#48. To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.
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#49. On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.
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#50. 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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#52. You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.
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#53. I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.
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#54. 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.
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#55. 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.
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#56. 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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#57. 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.
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#58. If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game.
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#59. Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.
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#61. Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.
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#62. Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that.
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#64. 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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#66. I'm so popular it's scary sometimes. I suppose I'm just everybody's type.
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#68. 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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#72. You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.
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#73. 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.
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#74. Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.
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#76. I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants.
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#78. 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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#79. Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover.
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#81. Lesbians and gays ... they still have to fight, even inside. It's not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted.
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#82. 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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#83. You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.
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#84. Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.
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#86. 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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#87. Sex is a big question mark. It is something people will talk about forever.
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#89. 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.
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#90. You're better off not preparing, because what you prepare will always be wrong.
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#91. I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.
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#92. 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.
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#93. I have been involved in some films other actresses would not have done.
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#94. 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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#95. Bjork is a very original, interesting person. I like her very much.
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#96. I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.
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#97. 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.
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#98. 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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#99. 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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#100. 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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