Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuveis a French actress as well as occasional singer, model and producer. She gained recognition for her portrayal of aloof, mysterious beauties for various directors, including Luis Buñuel and Roman Polanski. In 1985, she succeeded Mireille Mathieu as the official face of Marianne, France's national symbol of liberty. A 14-time César Award nominee, she won for her performances in François Truffaut's The Last Metroand Régis Wargnier's Indochine. She is also noted for her support for a variety of liberal...
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth22 October 1943
CityParis, France
You can tell how nervous I am by how fast I am talking!
Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover.
I would love to work with Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I think they're wonderful actors.
I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.
I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.
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.
Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.
I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.
Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.
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 live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants. Then if something happens to remind me that I'm an actress then I become a little different and things become a little heavy.
I don't enjoy. I suffer from enjoying. It's very Christian.
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.
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.