Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve

You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.

Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve

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
Catherine Deneuve

I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them.

Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve

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

Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve

I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never.

Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve

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

Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve

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

Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve

Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.

Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve

A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day.

Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve

When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene.

Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve

I can be very critical on myself and on other people; I can be very demanding.

Catherine Deneuve
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
Catherine Deneuve

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

Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve

I did important films when I was very young.

Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve

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

Catherine Deneuve
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
Catherine Deneuve

I love to do very long and complicated scenes.

Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve

Polanski was very precise. I think he still is.

Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve

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
Catherine Deneuve

Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.