61+ Catherine Deneuve Quotes On Beauty, Now And Johnny Carson

Catherine Deneuve is a French actress, model, and singer. She is best known for her roles in the films Repulsion and Belle de Jour, and for her contributions to French New Wave cinema. She is considered one of the most successful French actresses of all time, and she has won numerous awards, including a César Award and an Academy Award nomination. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Catherine Deneuve on love, life, beauty.

Top 10 Catherine Deneuve Quotes

1. 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.
2. People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical,when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life.
3. If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game.
4. I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.
5. People expect a lot more from someone they think looks interesting. It's a burden.
6. You're better off not preparing, because what you prepare will always be wrong.
7. I know who I am, how I was. I don't want to know how I will be because nobody knows that.
8. You should put scent where you like to be kissed.
9. I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.
10. People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable.

Catherine Deneuve Short Quotes

• In America you need a bodyguard to go out.
• I have been involved in some films other actresses would not have done.
• The paparazzi are nothing but dogs of war.
• Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films.
• The story is more important to me than the part.
• Sex is a big question mark. It is something people will talk about forever.
• Polanski was very precise. I think he still is.
• It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor.
• I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
• Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.

Catherine Deneuve Quotes About Love

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. — Catherine Deneuve

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

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

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

Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him. — Catherine Deneuve

Love is suffering. One side always loves more. — Catherine Deneuve

Catherine Deneuve Quotes About Life

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. — Catherine Deneuve

I think one of the few times I've been involved with real-life characters was the story of Marie Bonaparte. I think it's really difficult to become someone that really existed. — Catherine Deneuve

What I do is I come in the morning and get involved in the character, but I'm always very pleased to leave it at night and have my life. — Catherine Deneuve

Catherine Deneuve Famous Quotes And Sayings

I think I will always feel a special relationship with The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, because for me it was something very, very special. It was a modern opera, and to play the heroine in a film that became such a success at a young age, and learning from him when I was so young and impressionable - really it was one of my most important experiences. — Catherine Deneuve

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. — Catherine Deneuve

Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films. — 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 it's become less of problem. — Catherine Deneuve

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. — Catherine Deneuve

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. — Catherine Deneuve

Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that. — Catherine Deneuve

I admire Cate Blanchett and Kate Winslet. I like a lot of comedians. I like Cameron Diaz - she's funny and has a very light spirit. That's quite rare nowadays. There are many actresses I admire. — Catherine Deneuve

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

Men are good but women are magic. — Catherine Deneuve

I like working with directors much, because I want to be able to give myself completely to their vision. Otherwise I would only do what I could do, again and again. I want to be taken by someone in a different direction. — 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

I'm so popular it's scary sometimes. I suppose I'm just everybody's type. — Catherine Deneuve

When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene. — Catherine Deneuve

I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day. — Catherine Deneuve

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

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

I did important films when I was very young. — Catherine Deneuve

Most of the time I've worked with directors who write their own scripts. The story is more important to me than the part. The project of the film has always been more important to me. — Catherine Deneuve

Sometimes, just to give the impression that you have the strength and the vitality demands a lot. You can't always give that impression when you have heels and a wig on and it's 40 degrees outside. — Catherine Deneuve

I am frivolous. But sometimes, that's the problem of my Christian education, when I know I've been frivolous, and I know I have to do it, then I feel guilty. — Catherine Deneuve

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

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

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

You can tell how nervous I am by how fast I am talking! — 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, when you're known and recognised, people expect you to do what you're supposed to do, and there's almost no more criticism and that's very dangerous. — Catherine Deneuve

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. — Catherine Deneuve

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

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

I love to do very long and complicated scenes. I like to have this impression that we are all working together, where you can see all the technicians and everybody is really doing the same thing at the same time. With close-ups, of course you have the crew there, but most of them are just around and it doesn't involve that many people. — 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 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. — 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 how. — Catherine Deneuve

Life Lessons by Catherine Deneuve

1. Catherine Deneuve has taught us to stay true to ourselves and to never compromise our values. She has also shown us that age is just a number and that it is never too late to pursue our dreams.
2. She has also shown us that with hard work and dedication, we can achieve anything we set our minds to.
3. Finally, she has taught us to never give up, even in the face of adversity, and to always strive to be the best version of ourselves.