Catherine Deneuve Quotes
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It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.
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I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day.
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I know who I am, how I was. I don't want to know how I will be because nobody knows that.
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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.
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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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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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You should put scent where you like to be kissed.
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The only human being I could tell everything was my sister Françoise. She and I were so diametrically different; put together we would have been a fantastic woman.
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I like men who have a light spirit. It's okay to be serious about your work but in everyday life it's difficult to find men who are very alive and positive. In life I like people who are cheerful.
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I'm lucky to still have my mother who is at a very advanced age, which is pretty incredible.
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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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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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To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored.
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I know that if I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films. That, I remember, and I know I have to accept it.
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I am shocked when people talk about me and sum me up as: blonde, cold, and solemn. People will cling on to whatever reinforces their own assumptions about a person.
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Follow your instinct. That's my message.
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I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.
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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 can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.
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All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.
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I think one of the few times I've been involved with real-life characters was the story of Marie Bonaparte. I think it's really difficult to become someone that really existed.
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You can tell how nervous I am by how fast I am talking!
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Why should I go to the States to do a film I wouldn't consider in Europe, just because it's English-speaking?
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Hollywood was already changing when I went there in 1968. I love American directors. I would love to work for Francis Ford Coppola or Martin Scorsese. But they don't need European actresses.