Catherine Deneuve Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

I would love to work with Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I think they're wonderful actors.

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

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

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.

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.

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