Catherine Deneuve Quotes
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I don't enjoy. I suffer from enjoying. It's very Christian.
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Follow your instinct. That's my message.
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Men are good but women are magic.
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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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I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.
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I like working with directors much, because I want to be able to give myself completely to their vision. Otherwise I would only do what I could do, again and again. I want to be taken by someone in a different direction.
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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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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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A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day.
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A star remains pinned on a wall in the public imagination.
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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.
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If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game.
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I'm so popular it's scary sometimes. I suppose I'm just everybody's type.
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Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.
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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.
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Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.
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There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.
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You're better off not preparing, because what you prepare will always be wrong.
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I've had one motto which I've always lived by: dignity, always dignity.
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That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
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Some people fall in love with their co-stars and feel things that they never thought they would feel for them because they are touching.
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Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.
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I choose my roles carefully.
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Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.