Top 45 Catherine Deneuve Quotes

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It has been very erotic and provocative for people to w

It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.
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I choose my roles carefully.
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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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I have no physical courage, I’ve asked for a double.
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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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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 love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.
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I love to do very long and complicated scenes.
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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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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.
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Actors have to be there and do the work, and that’s enough.
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Polanski was very precise. I think he still is.
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I have been involved in some films other actresses would not have done.
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Opportunities are often things you haven’t noticed the first time around.
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On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.
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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.
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There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.
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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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You suffer as an actor. It’s difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.
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Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.
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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 get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.
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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 don’t see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.
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Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.
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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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I wouldn’t say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors.
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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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I like being famous when it’s convenient for me and completely anonymous when it’s not.
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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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All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.
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When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, bu

When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene.
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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 am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.
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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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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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People who know me know I’m strong, but I’m vulnerable.
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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 live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants.
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Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.
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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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I’m lucky; people write scripts for me.
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I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless.
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You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.
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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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