166 Quotes by Catherine Deneuve

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.

I don’t enjoy. I suffer from enjoying. It’s very Christian.

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 itdepresses and bothers me to see just how easy things are made for a beautiful woman.

I’m lucky; people write scripts for me.

Opportunities are often things you haven’t noticed the first time around.

I have no physical courage, I’ve asked for a double.

I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it’s true. If I didn’t like that, I’d do something else.

That’s what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

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