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

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

All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.
- Catherine Deneuve Quote

Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.
- Catherine Deneuve Quote

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

Bjork is a very original, interesting person. I like her very much.
- Catherine Deneuve Quote

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.
- Catherine Deneuve Quote

Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.
- Catherine Deneuve Quote

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

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

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.
- Catherine Deneuve Quote

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

I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.
- Catherine Deneuve Quote

I can be very critical on myself and on other people; I can be very demanding.
- Catherine Deneuve Quote

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

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

I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day.
- Catherine Deneuve Quote

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.
- Catherine Deneuve Quote

I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them.
- Catherine Deneuve Quote

I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else.
- Catherine Deneuve Quote

I have been involved in some films other actresses would not have done.
- Catherine Deneuve Quote

I like all these little animals that run and eat and hide all the time. I like their faces, They seem to be scared and curious at the same time.
- Catherine Deneuve Quote

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.
- Catherine Deneuve Quote

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

I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.
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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.
- Catherine Deneuve Quote

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

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

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

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

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

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.
- Catherine Deneuve Quote

In America you need a bodyguard to go out.
- Catherine Deneuve Quote

It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor.
- Catherine Deneuve Quote

Lesbians and gays... they still have to fight, even inside. It's not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted.
- Catherine Deneuve Quote

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

Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.
- Catherine Deneuve Quote

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

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

Polanski was very precise. I think he still is.
- Catherine Deneuve Quote

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.
- Catherine Deneuve Quote

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

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
- Catherine Deneuve Quote

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.
- Catherine Deneuve Quote

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.
- Catherine Deneuve Quote

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

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

You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.
- Catherine Deneuve Quote

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