Quotes By Catherine Deneuve

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

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.

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 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 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.

Some people fall in love with their co-stars and feel things that they never thought they would feel for them because they are touching.

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

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

A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day.

When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene.

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.

Polanski was very precise. I think he still is.

This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.

To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored.

It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.

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