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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• 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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• It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent.

  

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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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• Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

  

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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.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
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• 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.

  

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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 still the classic thing to get nice lines, but knowing that your computer model, on your little machine, is on the screen, is priceless. And that doesn't happen too often I don't think.

  

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• Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people, to fight one another. I do not feel happy for this victory of mine. On the contrary, I would be glad, brothers, if I had all of you standing here next to me, since we are united by the same language, the same blood and the same visions.

  

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• If you're not acting, you're not an actor.

  

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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
  • To Be
  • Someone