Catherine Deneuve
31 quotes
Biography
"Love is suffering. One side always loves more."
"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."
"I think it's very tiring to be Catherine Deneuve each day"
"It was a film about character but also about actresses too, and she is the most important French actress for 50 years. When she accepted, it was very easy to build a cast around her."
"She's not an icon in life. She knows things, and she's very clever. I think she's very shy. She tries to protect herself a lot."
"I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts."
"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."
"Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology."
"I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double."
"Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being."
"Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before."
"I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not."
"I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce."
"Marriage is obsolete and a trap."
"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."
"I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring."
"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."
"I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants."
"I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women."
"That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing."
"There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men."
"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."
"Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology."
"I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more."
"Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being."