Catherine Deneuve Quotes
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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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Love is suffering. One side always loves more.
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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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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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At a certain age, you have to choose between your face and your ass.
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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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The story is more important to me than the part.
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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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People expect a lot more from someone they think looks interesting. It's a burden.
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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'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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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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I did important films when I was very young.
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I love to do very long and complicated scenes.
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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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To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.
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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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Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that.
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I have been involved in some films other actresses would not have done.
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In America you need a bodyguard to go out.
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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.
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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.
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The thing about a tuxedo is that it is virile and feminine at the same time
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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.