Catherine Deneuve Quotes
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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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A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
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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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To work is a noble art.
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You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.
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I've had one motto which I've always lived by: dignity, always dignity.
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Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.
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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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I'm so popular it's scary sometimes. I suppose I'm just everybody's type.
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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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Interviews are written by someone else - the journalist makes the decision to add or take things away and I couldn't recognize my voice, or anything of myself in that.
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I don't have a greatest achievement. It's something said by other people or journalists when they give you an award, or after some time you've been in the industry.
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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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I choose my roles carefully.
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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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All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.
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It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone.
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Men are good but women are magic.
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Sex is a big question mark. It is something people will talk about forever.
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There are many female columnists and women in general who hate me through jealousy. It is strange, because if they knew my looks make me no happier than anyone else, perhaps we could be friends.
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I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video.
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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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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 don't enjoy. I suffer from enjoying. It's very Christian.