Top 90 Catherine Deneuve Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Catherine Deneuve

2. “Men are good but women are magic.”

— Catherine Deneuve

3. “You should put scent where you like to be kissed.”

— Catherine Deneuve

4. “To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.”

— Catherine Deneuve

5. “Love is suffering. One side always loves more.”

— Catherine Deneuve

6. “It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.”

— Catherine Deneuve

7. “Marriage is obsolete and a trap.”

— Catherine Deneuve

8. “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

9. “Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.”

— Catherine Deneuve

10. “I don’t see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.”

— Catherine Deneuve

11. “I love to do very long and complicated scenes.”

— Catherine Deneuve

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

— Catherine Deneuve

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

— Catherine Deneuve

14. “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.”

— Catherine Deneuve

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

— Catherine Deneuve

16. “I’m lucky; people write scripts for me.”

— Catherine Deneuve

17. “The paparazzi are nothing but dogs of war.”

— Catherine Deneuve

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

— Catherine Deneuve

19. “I’m so popular it’s scary sometimes. I suppose I’m just everybody’s type.”

— Catherine Deneuve

20. “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.”

— Catherine Deneuve

21. “There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.”

— Catherine Deneuve

22. “I would love to work with Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I think they’re wonderful actors.”

— Catherine Deneuve

23. “I know who I am, how I was. I don’t want to know how I will be because nobody knows that.”

— Catherine Deneuve

24. “Polanski was very precise. I think he still is.”

— Catherine Deneuve

25. “You’ll be back. When the hunger knows no reason! And then you’ll need to feed, and you’ll need me to show you how.”

— Catherine Deneuve

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

— Catherine Deneuve

27. “Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that.”

— Catherine Deneuve

28. “I admire Cate Blanchett and Kate Winslet. I like a lot of comedians. I like Cameron Diaz – she’s funny and has a very light spirit. That’s quite rare nowadays. There are many actresses I admire.”

— Catherine Deneuve

29. “Bjork is a very original, interesting person. I like her very much.”

— Catherine Deneuve

30. “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

31. “I was never a dangerous woman. I’m not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away.”

— Catherine Deneuve

32. “I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.”

— Catherine Deneuve

33. “Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.”

— Catherine Deneuve

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

— Catherine Deneuve

35. “I like being famous when it’s convenient for me and completely anonymous when it’s not.”

— Catherine Deneuve

36. “I wouldn’t say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors.”

— Catherine Deneuve

37. “Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover.”

— Catherine Deneuve

38. “I think one of the few times I’ve been involved with real-life characters was the story of Marie Bonaparte. I think it’s really difficult to become someone that really existed.”

— Catherine Deneuve

39. “I’m not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I’m an actress when I’m not working.”

— Catherine Deneuve

40. “I did important films when I was very young.”

— Catherine Deneuve

41. “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.”

— Catherine Deneuve

42. “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.”

— Catherine Deneuve

43. “I didn’t devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.”

— Catherine Deneuve

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

— Catherine Deneuve

45. “People who know me know I’m strong, but I’m vulnerable.”

— Catherine Deneuve

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46. “I choose my roles carefully.”

— Catherine Deneuve

47. “I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless.”

— Catherine Deneuve

48. “I am frivolous. But sometimes, that’s the problem of my Christian education, when I know I’ve been frivolous, and I know I have to do it, then I feel guilty.”

— Catherine Deneuve

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

— Catherine Deneuve

50. “I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.”

— Catherine Deneuve