Catherine Deneuve

Catherine Deneuve

24 quotes

The French actress Catherine Deneuve (b. 1943) is remembered as much for penetrating words as for professional achievements. Whether reflecting on Women or Movies, Catherine Deneuve brought uncommon clarity to every subject. Our collection holds 28 quotes from Catherine Deneuve, each offering a different angle on Women, Movies, Marriage, Art, and Trust. A line that stays with you: "It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women."

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

— Catherine Deneuve

Courage

All Quotes by 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

Art

“I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.”

— Catherine Deneuve

Relationship

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

— Catherine Deneuve

Women

“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

Women

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

— Catherine Deneuve

Famous

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

— Catherine Deneuve

Society

“Marriage is obsolete and a trap.”

— Catherine Deneuve

Marriage

“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

Strength

“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

Humor

“Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.”

— Catherine Deneuve

Art

“Love is suffering. One side always loves more.”

— Catherine Deneuve

Love

“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

Movies

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

— Catherine Deneuve

Travel

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

— Catherine Deneuve

Courage

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

— Catherine Deneuve

Movies

“Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.”

— Catherine Deneuve

Women

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

— Catherine Deneuve

Dreams

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

— Catherine Deneuve

Women

“I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.”

— Catherine Deneuve

Architecture

“I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.”

— Catherine Deneuve

Movies