Quotes By Catherine Deneuve

Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.

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

I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working.

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

Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.

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

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

I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.

People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life.

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.

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

The story is more important to me than the part.

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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 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.

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.