Catherine Deneuve (Catherine Fabienne Dorléac) Quotes

I'm afraid of being too sure, to just deliver. I think that's the biggest danger for actors - after a certain time, when you're known and recognised, people expect you to do what you're supposed to do, and there's almost no more criticism and that's very dangerous.

Catherine Deneuve

• Actors
• Criticism
• Afraid
• Danger
• Deliver

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• I remember starting out and covering songs.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Remember
  • Songs
  • Starting

• Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We've made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.

  

  Adam Kinzinger
  • Future
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• I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • World
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• Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Green
  • Loved
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• When I moved in, I said, 'I don't care how this makes me look or sound: I am converting one of these bedrooms into a shoe closet.' It's become more of a dressing room, but one wall is shoes in their perfect cubbies.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Dressing
  • Shoe
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• China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Hope
  • Understanding
  • China

• As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Living

• Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Man
  • Free
  • Freedom

• The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.

  

  Ted Turner
  • People
  • Control
  • Healthy

• Everyone wants to be famous; so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Sleep
  • Famous
  • Lose

• Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Gender

• If, by chance, you were to meet me at the Casablanca airport or on a boat sailing from Tangiers, you would think me self-confident, but I am not. Even now, at my age, I am frightened when crossing borders because I am afraid of failing to understand strangers.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Chance
  • Understand
  • Boat

• I found them uncomfortable and after that I decided to continue running barefoot because I found it more comfortable. I felt more in touch with what was happening - I could actually feel the track.

  

  Zola Budd
  • Running
  • Comfortable
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• Progress leads to confusion leads to progress and on and on without respite. Every one of the many major advances … created sooner or later, more often sooner, new problems. These confusions, never twice the same, are not to be deplored. Rather, those who participate experience them as a privilege.

  

  Abraham Pais
  • Experience
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• Sundance is just a great place for your work to be seen. Not much more to say about it than that.

  

  David Wain
  • Work
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• Well, I'm directing a lot of television these days.

  

  Joanna Kerns

• The more Mommy blogs going nuclear over playground etiquette I read and birthday parties of glazed adults munching cupcakes like demoralized zombies I attend, I realize this is what my friends who conceived before me meant by, 'You just won't care.'

  

  Emma McLaughlin
  • Friends
  • Birthday

• Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve.

  

  Emeril Lagasse
  • Up
  • Growing

• People have been predicting the death of philosophy since the 17th century. When I was a student, people were saying, 'We're in the last days of philosophy.' Then we were told in the '60s it would be replaced by sociology, then by literary criticism.

  

  Bernard Williams
  • People
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• We have always been prepared to negotiate with the U.S. government everything that has to do with bilateral relations, on a basis of the strictest mutual respect for the sovereign rights of each country. We will never try to ask the government of the United States to change its economic and political system.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Country
  • Political
  • Change

• Character is determined by choice, not opinion.

  

  Aristotle
  • Character
  • Opinion
  • Choice

• Stop exposing your children to danger by sending them to throw bombs and stones at soldiers and civilians.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Children
  • Stop
  • Danger

• I'm afraid of being too sure, to just deliver. I think that's the biggest danger for actors - after a certain time, when you're known and recognised, people expect you to do what you're supposed to do, and there's almost no more criticism and that's very dangerous.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Actors
  • Criticism
  • Afraid