Quotes By Catherine Deneuve

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

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.

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

The story is more important to me than the part.

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

I was never a dangerous woman. I'm not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away.

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

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

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'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.

You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.

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

I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.

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

To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.

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.

I have been involved in some films other actresses would not have done.

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.

I choose my roles carefully.

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.

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

I can be very critical on myself and on other people; I can be very demanding.

I don't enjoy. I suffer from enjoying. It's very Christian.

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

Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.

I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors.

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

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