Catherine Deneuve – 24 Quotes

24 Quotes by Catherine Deneuve

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

– Catherine Deneuve

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.

– Catherine Deneuve

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

– Catherine Deneuve

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

– Catherine Deneuve

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

– Catherine Deneuve

Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.

– Catherine Deneuve

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

– Catherine Deneuve

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.

– Catherine Deneuve

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

– Catherine Deneuve

I don’t see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.

– Catherine Deneuve

Marriage is obsolete and a trap.

– Catherine Deneuve

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.

– Catherine Deneuve

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.

– Catherine Deneuve

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

– Catherine Deneuve

I’m not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.

– Catherine Deneuve

I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.

– Catherine Deneuve

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

– Catherine Deneuve

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

– Catherine Deneuve

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.

– Catherine Deneuve

I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.

– Catherine Deneuve

All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.

– Catherine Deneuve

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

– Catherine Deneuve

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.

– Catherine Deneuve

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

– Catherine Deneuve