Quotes By Catherine Deneuve

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

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.