Catherine Deneuve Quotes (84 Quotes)

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Polanski was very precise. I think he still is.

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

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

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

She's a great model. If she's ruining her personal life, that belongs to her. What she does in her private life is very private. I find it unbearable that maybe someone shot her (picture), stole the photos then sold them.

In America you need a bodyguard to go out.

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.

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

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.

This is a magic place. It's one of my favorite buildings in Paris.

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

I did important films when I was very young.

Marriage is obsolete and a trap.

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

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

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.

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

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

Paris is just special. I don't say that there are no other cities in America or Italy. But everybody wants to show in Paris.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I choose my roles carefully.

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

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.

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

This is a place full of seduction and coquetry, rich in eroticism.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical, when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life.