Quotes By Catherine Deneuve

I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.

You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.

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.

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

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

I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.

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.

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.

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.

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

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

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

Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.

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

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