Top 111 Quotes & Sayings by Catherine Deneuve

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Last updated on November 5, 2024.

Catherine Fabienne Dorléac, known professionally as Catherine Deneuve, is a French actress as well as an occasional singer, model, and producer, considered one of the greatest European actresses. She gained recognition for her portrayal of icy, aloof, and mysterious beauties for various directors, including Jacques Demy, Luis Buñuel, François Truffaut, and Roman Polanski. In 1985, she succeeded Mireille Mathieu as the official face of Marianne, France's national symbol of liberty. A 14-time César Award nominee, she won for her performances in Truffaut's The Last Metro (1980), for which she also won the David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress, and Régis Wargnier's Indochine (1992).

French - Actress | Born: October 22, 1943

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

Catherine Deneuve

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I did important films when I was very young.

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

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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.

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

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Polanski was very precise. I think he still is.

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

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

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

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

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In America you need a bodyguard to go out.

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

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I love to do very long and complicated scenes.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

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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.

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Marriage is obsolete and a trap.

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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.

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

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I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

Catherine Deneuve

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

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

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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.

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

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The story is more important to me than the part.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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Top 111 Quotes & Sayings by Catherine Deneuve

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