You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.

- Catherine Deneuve

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

- 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

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.

- Catherine Deneuve

I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.

- Catherine Deneuve

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

- Catherine Deneuve

Lesbians and gays... they still have to fight, even inside. It's not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted.

- Catherine Deneuve

I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.

- Catherine Deneuve

Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films.

- Catherine Deneuve

In America you need a bodyguard to go out.

- Catherine Deneuve

All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.

- Catherine Deneuve

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

- Catherine Deneuve

People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life.

- 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

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

- Catherine Deneuve

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

- Catherine Deneuve

I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.

- 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

I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.

- Catherine Deneuve

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.

- Catherine Deneuve