Catherine Deneuve Quotes
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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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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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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 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 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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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'm lucky to still have my mother who is at a very advanced age, which is pretty incredible.
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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 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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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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Sex is a big question mark. It is something people will talk about forever.
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When it comes to falling in love, experience doesn't help you in any way.
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Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.
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I've had one motto which I've always lived by: dignity, always dignity.
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To work is a noble art.
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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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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'm so popular it's scary sometimes. I suppose I'm just everybody's type.
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I choose my roles carefully.
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You're better off not preparing, because what you prepare will always be wrong.
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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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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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I don't enjoy. I suffer from enjoying. It's very Christian.