Catherine Deneuve Quotes (84 Quotes)

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

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

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.

I don't enjoy. I suffer from enjoying. It's very Christian.

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

The story is more important to me than the part.

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

The thing about a tuxedo is that it is virile and feminine at the same time,

I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.

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

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

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

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

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 think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless.

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I love to do very long and complicated scenes.

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

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 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'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.

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

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

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

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