Catherine Deneuve Quotes

Honestly, I felt pressure more when I was a lot younger.

People always clap for the wrong reasons.

The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.

Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored

What does it mean that social structures among young people are so often predicated upon trying really, really hard to appear to not-be-trying?

In my little world, I'm very protected 'cause I'm treated like the idiot I am by my buddies. But, a little bit outside that world, people sometimes expect heavy things from me. For a little time, I tried to appease and not disappoint people but in the end you're just going to kill yourself and fail if you're trying to give more than you are.

People want you to be ordinary.

I've seen so many people in my life struggle tremendously to fit into those boxes or to live up to those expectations or pressures put upon them by whatever society's concept of 'normal' is. I get frustrated by rules and regulations. I'm frustrated by things that are exclusive to one particular life choice.

All young people worry about things, it's a natural and inevitable part of growing up, and at the age of sixteen my greatest anxiety in life was that I'd never again achieve anything as good, or pure, or noble, or true, as my O-level results.

I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in my lifestyle or trying to find a flaw in an argument I never made. (I have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me.)

We are all prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectations of those around us. It is a burden that all people endure, that all people despise, and that few people ever learn to escape.

I've always been taught to care what other people think. My grandmother and mother taught me to project a positive image of myself.

Growing up in public is a test, and not many people know how to do it.

Unless women have, from the moment of birth, socialization for, expectations of, and preparation for a viable significant alternative to motherhood . . . women will continue to want and reproduce too many children.

I'm frequently introduced as a fashion designer, and I quickly say I'm not, and instantly people are incredibly disappointed and think that I'm some sort of charlatan who's been perpetuating this falsehood.

People always try to palm me weed when I'm always talking about how I don't smoke weed. But they always try to ... and when they stop offering me weed, then I'm going to feel kind of out of touch, like: "What did I do wrong that you won't offer me drugs that I don't do?" Because I'll trade those drugs out for drugs that I do do.

What foolsmiddle-classgirls are to expect other people to respect the same gods as themselves and E M Forster.

I think you're always policing yourself by trying to do what you think would be "cool" and accepted by other people, until you start to figure out who you really want to be. Growing up is an ongoing push-and-pull of you being yourself and you performing to what society expects you to be.

It may sound trite, but young people really are the future.

Everyone expects me to do certain things.

The truth is . . . you think what people want you to think.

I am surprised by what people expect of me.

What's interesting is, there's always a lot of talk to young people about finding their passion, following their passion. But I remember reading somewhere that a lot of people don't have a passion. And there's this pressure to have one. It's perfectly fine not to have one.

I have noticed several times that people don't think I know how to behave even when I'm trying as hard as I can.

I use singing as a warm-up before big scenes I have to do on set. It's also great to make people less nervous.