Catherine Deneuve (Catherine Fabienne Dorléac) Quotes

I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.

Catherine Deneuve

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• I didn't grow up with a lot of babies in my life because I only grew up with my parents - I didn't have any brothers or sisters - and I didn't have my family close by.

  

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• Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.

  

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• I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.

  

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• As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.

  

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• My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.

  

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• We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.

  

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• Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

  

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• You walk into the class in second grade. You can't read. What are you going to do if you're going to make it? You identify the smart kid. You make friends with him. You sit next to him. You grow a team around you. You delegate your work to others. You learn how to talk your way out of a tight spot.

  

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• As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.

  

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• My wife and I are very blessed. I am very grateful for the life that we lead.

  

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• When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.

  

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• I'm very laid back, easy. There's nothing better in life than seeing your kids do well.

  

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• I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.

  

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• Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.

  

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• People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound like a foreign language.

  

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• What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.

  

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• I have no regrets. I wanted to raise the kids and be a present father. When I developed a movie, I was gone for a year. That didn't really work for me. That isn't fair to make these life-forms and then disappear.

  

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• You should not pay too much attention to what anyone tells you, including me. It's very, very important to follow your own map.

  

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• Between work and the kids, I never see anyone anymore. I mean, when I first met with ABC last spring, and they asked me what I'd been doing lately, I said: 'Gee, I have two kids. I'm usually covered with food, wrinkled and feel guilty all the time.

  

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• I will not be tamed, only persuaded. I will not be coerced or led blindly or tricked or bullied - I am willing only to be convinced. If you don't trust your own basic goodness enough to tell me what you're trying to do... Then you're confessing your own moral weakness and I'll never serve you.

  

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• Before I start, I create a set list that I listen to while I'm writing. For 'Intimate Apparel,' I loaded Erik Satie, Scott Joplin, klezmer music, and the American jazz performer and composer Reginald Robinson.

  

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• I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.

  

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• I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important