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.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
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I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.
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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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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.
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Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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When I was in high school, I was lucky enough to be an exchange student to a small town in Argentina called Goya.
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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.
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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.
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When I go to school, I'm always happy because it's a normal kid thing.
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I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.
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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.
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It's always fun to play someone who is a little off. Normal is a little boring.
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I don't want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.
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I would love to have a rapper on one of my songs, like Ludacris, or the 'it's so hot in here' guy, Nelly.
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What attracted me to New York was there was an anonymity that I couldn't always have in Los Angeles, and it was easier to blend in there. The more successful you are, the less you are able to do that.
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The United States has become great because we, as a people, have been able to work together for great objectives even while differing about details.
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Characters actors don't usually get noticed until they're about 38 or so.
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In 1949, Mao Tse-tung's Communists established the People's Republic of China, and the following year, his People's Liberation Army invaded central Tibet.
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The best way to be the kind of girl you want to be is to do what that girl would do.
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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.
