Explore Quotes by Catherine Deneuve

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

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.

This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.

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

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

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

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

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

Marriage is obsolete and a trap.

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

I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working.

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.

I was never a dangerous woman. I'm not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away.

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

I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.

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.

I love to do very long and complicated scenes.

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

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

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.

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