Quotes from Catherine Deneuve

Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough.

But I never gave up personal things to work, never.

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.

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.

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

I have been involved in some films other actresses would not have done.

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.

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

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

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