Quotes By Catherine Deneuve

I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.

I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.

Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.

I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.

To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.

I have been involved in some films other actresses would not have done.

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

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.

I choose my roles carefully.

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

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.

I can be very critical on myself and on other people; I can be very demanding.

I don't enjoy. I suffer from enjoying. It's very Christian.

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

It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor.

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.

You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.

I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors.

On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.

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.

A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day.

When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene.

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

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

This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.

Polanski was very precise. I think he still is.

People expect a lot more from someone they think looks interesting. It's a burden.

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.