Catherine Deneuve (Catherine Fabienne Dorléac) Quotes

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

Catherine Deneuve

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• I think the three Mexican directors that came before me did a very good job in Hollywood because they came in and started directing things like 'Harry Potter.'

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Good
  • Job
  • Think

• I am half Puerto Rican, a quarter German and a quarter black. That was always a big issue for me - being mixed race - because casting directors tended to be very like, 'OK, are you Hispanic for this role?' 'Or is she going to be African American?'

  

  Naya Rivera
  • American
  • Race
  • German

• Try to be in as many relationships as you can.

  

  Cher Sonny & Cher
  • Relationships
  • To Be
  • Many Times

• My choice is what I choose to be.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Choice
  • To Be

• As a director, I hoped that I was able to help the actors by giving them the space and the respect they need and the trust. I gave them what I always felt I needed when I was working.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Help
  • Giving
  • Respect

• I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Knows
  • Stills
  • Ifs

• I'm so consistent that my director's cuts are usually 20-25 minutes longer than the released version of the movies.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Cutting
  • Directors
  • Minutes

• It doesn't matter if you work with an Oscar winner or if you work with an unknown actor. There is always a collaboration between the director and the actors, and you always have to listen as the actors have to listen to you as a director.

  

  Baran Odar
  • Work
  • Actors
  • Unknown

• I love supporting emerging voices, and new writers and directors. I love engaging an audience in a way that doesn't have to involve me, personally, and yet still generates an experience for groups of people.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • People
  • Experience
  • Voice

• When I think back on it, of course I got lucky and got great directors and good breaks but all that was the physical part. But what made me a star was that I could take a chance and not have anything to worry about in terms of losing.

  

  Shah Rukh Khan
  • Part
  • Directors
  • Physical

• I just think there are a lot of celebrities who don't feel that they have a voice. A lot of actors come from a place of fear, and that's just a general statement about actors. You're terrified the casting director won't like you, you're terrified the producer won't like you, you're terrified the director won't like you, and on and on.

  

  George Clooney
  • Actors
  • Directors
  • Producers

• It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.

  

  George Clooney
  • Movie
  • Directors
  • Scripts

• I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.

  

  William Shatner
  • Directors
  • Comedian
  • Performers

• I've imparted that philosophy to the writers, but some of them look stuff up while some don't. Same with the editors, directors and actors. To each their own.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • Actors
  • Philosophy
  • Directors

• The director's very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Important
  • Style
  • Directors

• David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like him. If you hate him, you really hate him. He's someone who's into controversy, you know what I mean? That's David Mamet.

  

  Tom Hardy
  • Hate
  • Mean
  • Directors

• As an actor you're only as good as the things you're offered. And there just weren't any female directors offering me things. So when you dissect that, you realize there aren't women offering you things because they don't have the opportunities. I work to raise money for women's cancers; I use my voice for violence against women.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Women
  • Actor
  • Opportunities

• I am impatient with directors who don't know what they want, and the way you don't know what they want is because they want to do one more. "Let's do one more." So, "What for?" I guarantee you there's not going to be a change.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Way
  • Change
  • Directors

• The Internet revolution is going to be like all the other revolutions we have seen in history. It's going to be over before a lot of us even know it started.

  

  Adolfo Suarez
  • Revolution
  • Internet
  • To Be

• You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off to play games. Those are books I'm interested in. I can't imagine what would have happened to me in college if my biology class had been on the same computer as 'Words With Friends' and 'Doom.'

  

  Gail Collins
  • Friends
  • Words
  • College

• But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • History
  • Individual
  • Changes

• In the big city, if the man next door happens to be a slum landlord, a Mafia bag man, or a long distance runner, what does it matter, as long as he puts his garbage out on Tuesdays?

  

  Hal Higdon
  • Running
  • Distance
  • Cities

• Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Happy
  • Mean
  • Look

• Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Directors
  • To Be
  • Pushed Up