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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.

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To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored.
Catherine Deneuve
I choose my roles carefully.
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Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.
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In America you need a bodyguard to go out.
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Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.
Catherine Deneuve
Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that.
Catherine Deneuve
I have been involved in some films other actresses would not have done.
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
Love is suffering. One side always loves more.
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I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working.
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Bjork is a very original, interesting person. I like her very much.
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That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
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Polanski was very precise. I think he still is.
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Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.
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I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants.
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When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene.
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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.
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Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.
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I love to do very long and complicated scenes.
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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.
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I did important films when I was very young.
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You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.
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Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.
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Lesbians and gays... they still have to fight, even inside. It's not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted.
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I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors.
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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.
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I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless.
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People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life.
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I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.
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Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.
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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.
Catherine Deneuve
I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.
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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.
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I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.
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I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
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I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.
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You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.
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I was never a dangerous woman. I'm not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away.
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The story is more important to me than the part.
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You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.
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Marriage is obsolete and a trap.
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A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day.
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Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films.
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Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.
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To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.
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I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.
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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.
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I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.
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