Catherine Deneuve Quotes

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

I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I love to do very long and complicated scenes.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

The story is more important to me than the part.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Marriage is obsolete and a trap.

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.

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