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

• Actor
• To Be
• Someone
• Instrument
• Directed

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

  

  Rafael Nadal
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  • Like
  • Listen

• 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
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  • 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
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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
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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.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• 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

• 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
  • School
  • Happy
  • Go

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

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Always
  • Clay
  • Henry

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

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Fun
  • Play
  • Boring

• 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.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Want
  • House
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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.

  

  LaToya Jackson
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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.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
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  • Los Angeles

• If companies are able to raise equity from the market, then their problems for financing incomplete projects will come to end. Investment cycle in the capital market can kick-start with the money of savers and investors.

  

  Uday Kotak
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  • End
  • Problems

• Beautiful and rich is an old friendship, Grateful to the touch as ancient ivory, Smooth as aged wine, or sheen of tapestry Where light has lingered, intimate and long. Full of tears and warm is an old friendship That asks no longer deeds of gallantry, Or any deed at all- save that the friend shall be Alive and breathing somewhere, like a song.

  

  Eunice Tietjens
  • Song
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  • Tears

• Continue, continue, there is no future for the people of Europe other than in union.

  

  Jean Monnet
  • People
  • Future

• Most people are sensitized to animals through their cats and dogs, but for me it was a flounder. I used to go fishing with my dad as a kid and always felt bad about yanking these panic-stricken creatures from the water. I stopped eating fish as an adolescent and went vegan at twenty.

  

  Dan Mathews
  • People
  • Animals
  • Stopped

• I've got to stand up and fight for Ronald Reagan.

  

  Chris Smith
  • Up
  • Fight
  • Ronald Reagan

• 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
  • To Be
  • Someone