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
• Someone
• To Be
• Instrument
• Directed

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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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• 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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• Philosophy and theology have so much to tell us about God, but people today want to experience God. There is a difference between eating dinner and merely reading the menu.

  

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• If God exists, Id be the first to be told.

  

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• To me, the responsibility of an actor is to recreate humanity honestly. I never feel like an actor, I always look at it from a blue collar perspective.

  

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• If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.

  

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• He works at the kennel with Nana," Ben piped up. "And I think him and Mom are dating." At that, a stillness fell over a throng of admirers, punctuated by a few uncomfortable coughs.

  

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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.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Actor
  • Someone
  • To Be