Catherine Deneuve Quotes
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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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To work is a noble art.
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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 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 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've had one motto which I've always lived by: dignity, always dignity.
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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 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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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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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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Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.
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Men are good but women are magic.
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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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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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All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.
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Sex is a big question mark. It is something people will talk about forever.
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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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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 don't enjoy. I suffer from enjoying. It's very Christian.
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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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A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day.