166 Quotes by Catherine Deneuve

Sometimes, if you're shooting a complicated scene, you have to stay in a position and wait for the technician to do his job, and then you have to be where you're supposed to be, right on the spot. You don't rehearse all that much on films. If I think of the amount of time I spend on set compared with the time spent shooting, it's ridiculously short.

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.

You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.

People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical,when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life.

If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game.

I was never a dangerous woman. I'm not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away.

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.

At a certain age, you have to choose between your face and your ass.

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