Catherine Deneuve Quotes

I did important films when I was very young.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Men are good but women are magic.

Polanski was very precise. I think he still is.

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

The paparazzi are nothing but dogs of war.

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

You should put scent where you like to be kissed.

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.

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

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.

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

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

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.

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

In America you need a bodyguard to go out.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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