Catherine Deneuve Quotes

At a certain age, you have to choose between your face and your ass.

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

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.

Men are good but women are magic.

You should put scent where you like to be kissed.

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

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

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

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.

Marriage is obsolete and a trap.

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

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

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

I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.

I know who I am, how I was. I don't want to know how I will be because nobody knows that.

People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical,when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life.

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.

It is very fashionable for good-looking ladies to say how hard it is to be beautiful, but that's not true. There are times when itdepresses and bothers me to see just how easy things are made for a beautiful woman.

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

I love to not work. I love to go to the movies, I like to travel... I think I work maybe half the year. Sometimes, people think I've done three films in a year, but it's because I did a participation [cameo?] in a film. But I work for half a year, no more.

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

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

The story is more important to me than the part.

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

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