Catherine Deneuve (Catherine Fabienne Dorléac) Quotes
People expect a lot more from someone they think looks interesting. It's a burden.
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I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.
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I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.
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Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
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Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.
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To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
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I've been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue's interesting, because it's one of these cult foods like chili, or bouillabaisse. Various parts of the world will have a cult food that people get enormously attached to - there's tremendous traditions; there's secrecy.
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I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
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I've met lots of interesting people, but Lucian Freud is the one who sticks out because I spent so much time with him. He taught me discipline, which I hadn't been taught properly before. If I was, like, two seconds, late, he would kick off. Once, I was three minutes late, and he went absolutely berserk.
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Learning how to put someone in an arm lock without breaking their arm... It's quite handy isn't it?
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Opinions of language are as interesting as opinions of arithmetic.
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I've been wanting to write a book about what goes into creating a novel, and the story behind 'A Passage to India' is especially interesting.
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I want to work on interesting parts that I can believe in.
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... Satan is made interesting. This has been the charge of a thousand orthodox and even heterodox writers against Milton.
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We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision. He's extremely thoughtful and sees grand issues both social and political in an interesting way. Quite honestly, I wasn't certain how some of his ideas were applicable to the screenplay, but he was heartfelt and adamant about them. And I remember completely going with it.
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I would rather give up acting than become world famous, because I think you pay a very high price. Writing and putting new plays out into the world has informed what I do, and I've had a lot more freedom to play really interesting parts.
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Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.
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San Francisco is an interesting place. It's always been such a nice culturally diverse environment, which it still is, but there's a lot of money there now and a lot of dot com's so it's a little different than it used to be.
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I love to be a working actor, and I love to read scripts as they come in. If I find the script or character that is interesting, I want to transform myself into that character.
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People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms.
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Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
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There's such an arrogance to savers sometimes. And I'm a saver, so I can say that.
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I think it was interesting to be steeped in that [political] world.
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I never took any writing classes or planned to write. But I was working as an advertising copywriter in the late '80s and thought, 'What a shame there has never been a decent book on Jean Harlow,' then thought, 'Why don't I write one myself?' being kind of an idiot and not having the slightest idea what I was getting myself into.
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People expect a lot more from someone they think looks interesting. It's a burden.
