Catherine Deneuve Quotes
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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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You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.
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Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.
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Follow your instinct. That's my message.
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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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Men are good but women are magic.
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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 star remains pinned on a wall in the public imagination.
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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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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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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 don't enjoy. I suffer from enjoying. It's very Christian.
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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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All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.
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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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I've had one motto which I've always lived by: dignity, always dignity.
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You're better off not preparing, because what you prepare will always be wrong.
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A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day.
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Being a film actor is very different from a theatre 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.
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I'm so popular it's scary sometimes. I suppose I'm just everybody's type.
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When we are filming, I can concentrate very quickly, but it does tire me out. It throws me into such a state! A trance-like state. So, what I need is either a trick for a calm type of trance or a sleepwalking trick.
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I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.
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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.