1968 was a difficult time in my life. I had a lot of problems, and to be far away from France was very difficult for me.
A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day.
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.
Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.
Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough.
All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.
As in Les Voleurs, I have to put myself in a little danger. I'm afraid of being too sure, to just deliver.
Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.
Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.
Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.
Bjork is a very original, interesting person. I like her very much.
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.
Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.
Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.
Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.
Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.
French people are very individual. Here, sex is so important, and the refusal of sex is so prevalent.
Here in America you are very strong about publicly pushing women to openly say they are gay, but I don't agree. I think it is very shocking.
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.
I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.
I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.
I can be very critical on myself and on other people; I can be very demanding.
I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.
I choose my roles carefully.
I couldn't stay in the house with all those rats. I like them, but they can be dangerous, especially if they bite you.
I did important films when I was very young.
I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.
I don't enjoy. I suffer from enjoying. It's very Christian.
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.
I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.
I don't speak Portuguese, so of course I had to respond to my director differently.
I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.
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.
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.
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.
I have been involved in some films other actresses would not have done.
I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.
I knew I would never write an autobiography.
I know people who are much more stressed than I am. I think it would be much more difficult if I lived in America.
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.
I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.
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.
I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants.
I love to do very long and complicated scenes.
I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.
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.
I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.
I think anything that has to do with sexuality makes people very interested.
I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless.
I was never a dangerous woman. I'm not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away.
I was not sure if I was going to carry on being an actress.
I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
I would love to work with Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I think they're wonderful actors. Sean Penn is one of my favourite actors.
I would not stand for someone to humiliate a homosexual man or woman in front of me, ever. I am a Libra, and I cannot stand anything that is unfair.
I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors.
I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.
I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working.
I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.
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.
I've just always been very curious and my choices have always been determined by my interest in doing something new or interesting.
If I go out with a man three times, they don't immediately say he is my lover.
In America you need a bodyguard to go out.
In France, the press is different from the way the press is here.
It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.
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.
It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor.
Lesbians and gays... they still have to fight, even inside. It's not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted.
Love is suffering. One side always loves more.
Marnie is a film I would have loved very much to do.
Marriage is obsolete and a trap.
Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.
Most of the scenes we had together, David Bowie was in this very heavy makeup, and it was like kissing a mummy.
On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.
Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.
People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life.
People expect a lot more from someone they think looks interesting. It's a burden.
People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable.
Polanski was very precise. I think he still is.
Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that.
Sex is a big question mark. It is something people will talk about forever.
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.
Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films.
Sometimes something happens to remind you that you're an actor.
Suddenly, there was a woman looking like a woman and liking women. Yes, I showed you can be beautiful and be a lesbian. Maybe I did that.
That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
The Hunger is very special, even to very young people. Some people are completely crazy about the film in a strange way.
The love scene between the women was so beautiful in The Hunger. Tony Scott, the director, made such a visually beautiful film.
The story is more important to me than the part.
There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.
This book was company for me-I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.
To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.
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.
Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.
When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene.
When the film was first released, I could tell in interviews that they were not thinking of me as a vampire. I had become a symbol for lesbians.
You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.
You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.
You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.
She had a rabbit, a hamster and a corean squirrel when her children were young.
Catherine Deneuve loves living in Paris but also loves country and nature.
Her favorite style of cooking is french but she also loves chinese food, indian food and italian food.
"La nuit du chasseur" is one of her favorite movie.
She is a big fan of Yves Saint Laurent.
Performed 8 songs. Duo with G?rard Depardieu (1980) Chansons by Serge Gainsbourg (1981) Duo with Malcom McLaren (1993) Duo with Joe Cocker (1995) Duo with Alain Souchon (1997) "Belle-maman" coached by Stomy Bugsy (1999) "Toi jamais" (2002) Adieux d'Yves Saint Laurent (2002)
He has received two tributes in 2006 for her whole career. (at Bangkok and Istanbul)
Nominated nine times for the C?sars.
Has been nominated for the British Awards. 1969: Belle de jour (Best actress)
She speaks fluent Italian and French.
She has a daughter with Marcello Mastroianni: Chiara Mastroianni.
She was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history. (#38 in 1995)
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