Catherine Deneuve Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

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

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.

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.

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

People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical,when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life.

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

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.

Marriage is obsolete and a trap.

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

The story is more important to me than the part.

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.

Men are good but women are magic.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

You should put scent where you like to be kissed.

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 am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover.

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

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

All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.

In America you need a bodyguard to go out.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 love to do very long and complicated scenes.