Catherine Deneuve (Catherine Fabienne Dorléac) Quotes
That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.
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I'm not a romantic.
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The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.
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I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.
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I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.
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All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
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If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck.
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I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.
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These women were taking over these former manufacturing warehouses in SoHo and figuring out a way to be fashionable and viable without money. It's hard to imagine a life like that in Manhattan now - there's something romantic about it.
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I'm close with all my family. It's just a normal, healthy, all-American divorced family.
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I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.
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I love going to tag sales, to auctions.
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Some of the most common pitfalls I see occur when authors don't check their privilege. Billions are living in a personal apocalypse right this second, so a little research and empathy can go a long way toward developing a convincing world.
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The longer I live, the more I feel like the stuff I see and feel is like a tracing of the outline of the real stuff that’s beyond our perceptions.
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A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they're not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well.
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At the highest level of awareness, the greatest gift given and received when you give someone flowers, is the joy of living a life based on love.
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That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
