Catherine Deneuve Quotes

I don't think anything I could ever do could make Gene Kelly look better than he was.

The Joan Crawford that I've heard about in 'Mommie Dearest' is not the Joan Crawford I knew back when.

I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.

I like Marilyn Monroe; she was super glam, weren't she?

You can really call Irene Dunne 'The First Lady of Hollywood', because she's the first real lady Hollywood has ever seen.

Even being close to L.A., I was always inspired by old movies and Marilyn Monroe and the glamour of Hollywood.

Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way.

People talk about the golden age of Hollywood because of how women were lit then. You could be Joan Crawford and Bette Davis and work well into your 50s, because you were lit and made into a goddess. Now, with everything being sort of gritty, women have this sense of their use-by date.

I've always hate child stars, starting from way back when, when I was a child. The first child star I saw was Shirley Temple. She was six years old, two foot six and the biggest star in Hollywood. She wore ribbons in her hair, and frilly little pinafores and shiny patent-leather tap shoes - just like the boys in Glee do.

Los Angeles is Hollywood and Hollywood is Hollywood Blvd. It's the first thing you want to see. It's the only thing really that you know about as far as Los Angeles is concerned. And so you go and you look at Joan Crawford's hands and feet and the whole history of American filmmaking is encapsulated in that one little area on that one street. That street, to me, has always been the street of dream.

Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

I was born in the 50s, my mom was pregnant in the 50s, [Frank] Sinatra had that big come back around then, From Here to Eternity.

God listens for nothing so tenderly, as when His children help each other by their testimonies to His goodness and the way in which He has brought them deliverance.

She has the heart of a child, you know. Yeah, it's in a box beside her bed. - Kaia Skyhawk

Becca Gardner is wonderful as the good-hearted little Griff who refuses to be daunted by all the heart-ache and resentment on dad's ranch and this young actress proves there's another young child actress in Hollywood besides Dakota Fanning.

Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter.

Hungry children are distracted children. We want to make sure nothing gets in the way of our children performing well academically, including hunger.

We need kids to remind us of how incredible this world is. People are increasingly losing their childhoods too soon, and that's a danger. There's a prophesy somewhere that at a certain point in history, children will be gray. It's weird to think about, but it's possible.

Let's be honest - look what Hollywood at 18 is.

There are so many things I'd like to do. I'd really like to be in a period piece that takes place in old New York or old Hollywood and wear those costumes and that makeup.

When my brother was a child, he kept telling my mom he wanted to be in the box. She didn't get it - he was two or three years old and kept saying he wanted to be in the box. She finally realized he was talking about the television.

My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin.

They've great respect for the dead in Hollywood, but none for the living.

Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or, rather, rearranges the things of his world in a new way which pleases him?

No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine.