Latest Catherine Deneuve Quotes from Interviews

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• 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

  Christian, Problem, Sometimes

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

• 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

  Thinking, Play, Special

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

• 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

  Real, Character, Thinking

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

• 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

  Thinking, Years, People

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

• 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

  Taken, Giving, Vision

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

• 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

  Writing, Important, Directors

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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

  Catherine Deneuve

  Who I Am, Want, Nobody Knows

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

• 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

  Nice, Drama, Men

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

• 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

  Different, Littles, Actresses

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

• 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

  People, Expectations, Trying

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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

  Catherine Deneuve

  Preparing, Better Off

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

• 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

  Thinking, People, Criticism

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

• 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

  Long, People, Working Together

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

• 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

  Giving, Vitality, Degrees

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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

  Catherine Deneuve

  Thinking, Actors, Als

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

• 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

  Morning, Character, Night

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

• 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

  Jobs, Thinking, Waiting

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.