Quotes by 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 it depresses and bothers me to see just how easy things are made for a beautiful woman.
– Catherine Deneuve
Love is suffering. One side always loves more.
– Catherine Deneuve
People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable.
– Catherine Deneuve
There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.
– Catherine Deneuve
That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
– Catherine Deneuve
Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.
– Catherine Deneuve
Marriage is obsolete and a trap.
– Catherine Deneuve
It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone.
– Catherine Deneuve
It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.
– Catherine Deneuve
I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.
– Catherine Deneuve
I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
– Catherine Deneuve
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.
– Catherine Deneuve
I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.
– Catherine Deneuve
I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants.
– Catherine Deneuve
I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.
– Catherine Deneuve
I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.
– Catherine Deneuve
I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.
– Catherine Deneuve
I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.
– Catherine Deneuve
I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.
– Catherine Deneuve
I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.
– Catherine Deneuve
Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.
– Catherine Deneuve
Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.
– 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
All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.
– Catherine Deneuve
Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.
– Catherine Deneuve
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.
– Catherine Deneuve