Catherine Deneuve Quotes
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This is a magic place. It's one of my favorite buildings in Paris.
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I‘m a free woman and always will be, i send my sisterly regards to all the victims of abject acts who would have felt attacked by this column inLe Monde, and it is to them, and them only, that I offer my apologies.
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What I do is I come in the morning and get involved in the character, but I'm always very pleased to leave it at night and have my life.
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I think the best decade of my life was between 40 and 50. Forty was the turning point for me as an actress.
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I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.
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I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless.
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I can be very critical on myself and on other people; I can be very demanding.
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I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.
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Lesbians and gays... they still have to fight, even inside. It's not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted.
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I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.
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Polanski was very precise. I think he still is.
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I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.
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Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover.
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I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.
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Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.
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This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.
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Sometimes, just to give the impression that you have the strength and the vitality demands a lot. You can't always give that impression when you have heels and a wig on and it's 40 degrees outside.
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You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.
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When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene.
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I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never.
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I felt very proud to be chosen. I really did collaborate on the product, colors, the style of the powder cases.
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But being a film actor is very different from, say, a theater actor. You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration. So I am very involved with the character, but I have to leave it as soon as it's finished. And also, you always have to be at the right level when it's time to shoot, which is not always the best time for the actor. Sometimes, if you're shooting a complicated scene, you have to stay in a position and wait for the technician to do his job, and then you have to be where you're supposed to be, right on the spot. You don't rehearse all that much on films. If I think of the amount of time I spend on set compared with the time spent shooting, it's ridiculously short.
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Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.
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I have no ambition. I am sure that I should, but... I do films when they are proposed. But I never go and look for them.