Catherine Deneuve Quotes

I love to do very long and complicated scenes.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I did important films when I was very young.

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.

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

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.

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

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

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

The paparazzi are nothing but dogs of war.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I would love to work with Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I think they're wonderful actors.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Polanski was very precise. I think he still is.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

I've worked with Andre Techine lately and with a young unknown director on a short film. I choose my roles carefully.

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

But I never gave up personal things to work, never.