Top 111 Quotes & Sayings by Catherine Deneuve - Page 2

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

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

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

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.

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

I choose my roles carefully.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

You can tell how nervous I am by how fast I am talking!

The only human being I could tell everything was my sister Françoise. She and I were so diametrically different; put together we would have been a fantastic woman.

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 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.

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

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.

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

You should put scent where you like to be kissed.

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.

Sometimes, if you're shooting a complicated scene, you have to stay in a position and wait for the technician to do his job, and then you have to be where you're supposed to be, right on the spot. You don't rehearse all that much on films. If I think of the amount of time I spend on set compared with the time spent shooting, it's ridiculously short.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Men are good but women are magic.

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 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.

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

You're better off not preparing, because what you prepare will always be wrong.

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

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

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 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.

When you're young, you try to meet that expectation that people have of you. It can be very stressful. But with time it's become less of problem.

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

The paparazzi are nothing but dogs of war.