Quotes By Catherine Deneuve

Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.

I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else.

In America you need a bodyguard to go out.

I like all these little animals that run and eat and hide all the time. I like their faces, They seem to be scared and curious at the same time.

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.

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them.

Lesbians and gays... they still have to fight, even inside. It's not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted.

I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.

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.

I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.

Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.

Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.

Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.

I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants.

I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working.

Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.

I think anything that has to do with sexuality makes people very interested.

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life.

I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.

Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.

I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless.

It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.

The story is more important to me than the part.

Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.

Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films.