Catherine Deneuve

But I never gave up personal things to work, never.

— Catherine Deneuve

You can tell how nervous I am by how fast I am talking!

— Catherine Deneuve

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

— Catherine Deneuve

“J'étais contente, c'est tout!”

— Catherine Deneuve

The story is more important to me than the part.

— Catherine Deneuve

People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable.

— Catherine Deneuve

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

— Catherine Deneuve

I did important films when I was very young.

— Catherine Deneuve

If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game.

— Catherine Deneuve

You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.

— Catherine Deneuve

Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough.

— Catherine Deneuve

Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover.

— Catherine Deneuve

Bjork is a very original, interesting person. I like her very much.

— Catherine Deneuve

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

— Catherine Deneuve

I would love to work with Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I think they're wonderful actors.

— Catherine Deneuve

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

— Catherine Deneuve

When you're young, you try to meet that expectation that people have of you. It can be very stressful. But with time…

— Catherine Deneuve

You'll be back. When the hunger knows no reason! And then you'll need to feed, and you'll need me to show you…

— 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…

— Catherine Deneuve

I like all these little animals that run and eat and hide all the time. I like their faces, They seem to…

— Catherine Deneuve

I've worked with Andre Techine lately and with a young unknown director on a short film. I choose my roles carefully.

— 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

The only human being I could tell everything was my sister Françoise. She and I were so diametrically different; put together we…

— Catherine Deneuve

Some people fall in love with their co-stars and feel things that they never thought they would feel for them because they…

— Catherine Deneuve

Getting older is not nice for anyone, not for men, not for women, and even more difficult for people who depend on…

— Catherine Deneuve

I think I will always feel a special relationship with The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, because for me it was something very, very…

— Catherine Deneuve

Sometimes, if you're shooting a complicated scene, you have to stay in a position and wait for the technician to do his…

— Catherine Deneuve

I love to do very long and complicated scenes. I like to have this impression that we are all working together, where…

— Catherine Deneuve

I love to not work. I love to go to the movies, I like to travel... I think I work maybe half…

— Catherine Deneuve

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

— Catherine Deneuve

I'm afraid of being too sure, to just deliver. I think that's the biggest danger for actors - after a certain time,…

— Catherine Deneuve

I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.

— Catherine Deneuve

Marriage is obsolete and a trap.

— Catherine Deneuve

In America you need a bodyguard to go out.

— Catherine Deneuve

You should put scent where you like to be kissed.

— Catherine Deneuve

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.

— Catherine Deneuve

The paparazzi are nothing but dogs of war.

— Catherine Deneuve

Polanski was very precise. I think he still is.

— Catherine Deneuve

I love to do very long and complicated scenes.

— Catherine Deneuve

I choose my roles carefully.

— Catherine Deneuve