Catherine Deneuve (Catherine Fabienne Dorléac) Quotes

I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else. Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else.

Catherine Deneuve

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• Someone
• To Be
• Instrument
• Directed

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• I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

  

  Larry Speakes
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• The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.

  

  Vince McMahon
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  • Bigger
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• I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Music
  • Like
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• The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

  

  Mao Zedong
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• My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.

  

  Natascha McElhone
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• Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.

  

  Kaia Gerber
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• A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Me
  • Forever
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• Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but 'design for good' is figuring out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • People
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• I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that!

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Good
  • People Say

• When I was in high school, I was lucky enough to be an exchange student to a small town in Argentina called Goya.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • School
  • High
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• Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Good
  • None
  • Toleration

• I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Pride
  • Laugh
  • Marry

• The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Remember
  • Humanity
  • Thoughts

• Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Up
  • Small
  • Space

• When I go to school, I'm always happy because it's a normal kid thing.

  

  Jackie Evancho
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  • Happy
  • Go

• I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Long
  • Find
  • Little

• It's always fun to play someone who is a little off. Normal is a little boring.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Fun
  • Play
  • Boring

• Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Training
  • Police
  • Soldiers

• I think once you've allocated an actor to the role that the character will evolve slightly.

  

  Nathalie Emmanuel
  • Character
  • Actor
  • Allocated

• Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Nature
  • Body
  • Gym

• In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Enemy
  • Moment
  • Understand

• For me, fashion is not about reality.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Reality
  • Me
  • Fashion

• I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else. Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Actor
  • Someone
  • To Be