Catherine Deneuve Quotes
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I think I will always feel a special relationship with The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, because for me it was something very, very special. It was a modern opera, and to play the heroine in a film that became such a success at a young age, and learning from him when I was so young and impressionable - really it was one of my most important experiences.
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Love is suffering. One side always loves more.
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I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants
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At a certain age, you have to choose between your face and your ass.
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The story is more important to me than the part.
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I was never a dangerous woman. I'm not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away.
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Directors have to push me because I never start [high] and then need to be pushed down; I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.
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To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.
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I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working.
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Getting older is not nice for anyone, not for men, not for women, and even more difficult for people who depend on their physical appearance. But it's not a drama. I know some people who are much more stressed than I am. And also, I live in Europe; I think it would be much more difficult if I lived in America.
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On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.
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But this character is very different from me. Her world is very distant from mine. Her relationship with her daughter is obviously something that's very distant to me as well.
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People expect a lot more from someone they think looks interesting. It's a burden.
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I did important films when I was very young.
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Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.
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I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.
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I love to do very long and complicated scenes.
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Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that.
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In America you need a bodyguard to go out.
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Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.
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Bunuel didn't like to talk too much. It would physically tire him. But we had a mute understanding.
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It is very fashionable for good-looking ladies to say how hard it is to be beautiful, but that's not true. There are times when itdepresses and bothers me to see just how easy things are made for a beautiful woman.
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You'll be back. When the hunger knows no reason! And then you'll need to feed, and you'll need me to show you how.
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She's a great model. If she's ruining her personal life, that belongs to her. What she does in her private life is very private. I find it unbearable that maybe someone shot her (picture), stole the photos then sold them.