Quotes By Catherine Deneuve

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

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

Marriage is obsolete and a trap.

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.

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

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

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'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 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.

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

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

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.

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

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.

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

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

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

I did important films when I was very young.

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.

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