People expect a lot more from someone they think looks interesting. It's a burden.
— Catherine Deneuve
I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants.
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 love to do very long and complicated scenes.
I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors.
On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.
You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.
Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films.
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.
I did important films when I was very young.
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 always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.
Polanski was very precise. I think he still is.
Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.
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.
Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.
Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.
Love is suffering. One side always loves more.
I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.
In America you need a bodyguard to go out.
That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough.
Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.
I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.
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.
It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor.
People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable.