Best 89 quotes of Catherine Deneuve on MyQuotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.

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

I did important films when I was very young.

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

If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game.

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.

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 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.

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

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

I know who I am, how I was. I don't want to know how I will be because nobody knows that.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants. Then if something happens to remind me that I'm an actress then I become a little different and things become a little heavy.

I love to do very long and complicated scenes.

I love to do very long and complicated scenes. I like to have this impression that we are all working together, where you can see all the technicians and everybody is really doing the same thing at the same time. With close-ups, of course you have the crew there, but most of them are just around and it doesn't involve that many people.

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

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 [cameo?] in a film. But I work for half a year, no more.

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'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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.