Catherine Deneuve Quotes - Page 2

I think anything that has to do with sexuality makes people very interested.

I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants. Then if something happens to remind me that I'm an actress then I become a little different and things become a little heavy.

You're better off not preparing, because what you prepare will always be wrong.

I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.

Getting older is not nice for anyone, not for men, not for women, and even more difficult for people who depend on their physical appearance. But it's not a drama. I know some people who are much more stressed than I am. And also, I live in Europe; I think it would be much more difficult if I lived in America.

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

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

I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never.

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

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 how.

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

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

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

The only human being I could tell everything was my sister Françoise. She and I were so diametrically different; put together we would have been a fantastic woman.

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

Sex is a big question mark. It is something people will talk about forever.

I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.

The paparazzi are nothing but dogs of war.

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

People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life.

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

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

I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else.

Sometimes, if you're shooting a complicated scene, you have to stay in a position and wait for the technician to do his job, and then you have to be where you're supposed to be, right on the spot. You don't rehearse all that much on films. If I think of the amount of time I spend on set compared with the time spent shooting, it's ridiculously short.

It was mostly an aura about him (Gene Kelly). For me he was Hollywood. The way I'd imagined it as a child.