Catherine Deneuve's Quotes

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

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

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.

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'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.

In America you need a bodyguard to go out.

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

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

Marriage is obsolete and a trap.

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

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

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

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

Polanski was very precise. I think he still is.

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

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

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.

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

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

The story is more important to me than the part.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

We are never like angels till our passion dies.

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

Art is when things appear rounded.

All artists are now free to express their own personality.

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.

Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.