Catherine Deneuve
Quotes by Catherine Deneuve
I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
— Catherine Deneuve
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
Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.
— Catherine Deneuve
I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.
— Catherine Deneuve
Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.
— Catherine Deneuve
Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.
— Catherine Deneuve
I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.
— Catherine Deneuve
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.
— Catherine Deneuve
Love is suffering. One side always loves more.
— Catherine Deneuve
I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.
— Catherine Deneuve
Marriage is obsolete and a trap.
— Catherine Deneuve
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
I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.
— Catherine Deneuve
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
I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants.
— Catherine Deneuve
I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.
— Catherine Deneuve
That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
— Catherine Deneuve
There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.
— Catherine Deneuve
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.
— Catherine Deneuve
I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.
— Catherine Deneuve
It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.
— Catherine Deneuve
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
All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.
— Catherine Deneuve
Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.
— Catherine Deneuve