Prot-a-gonist: Catherine Deneuve / Speaks | Photos by Loomis Dean (1961)

“Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.”

Catherine Deneuve

“A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It’s the same qualities I require from a man.”

Catherine Deneuve

“People expect a lot more from someone they think looks interesting. It’s a burden.”

Catherine Deneuve

“I love to not work. I love to go to the movies, I like to travel… I think I work maybe half the year.

Sometimes, people think I’ve done three films in a year, but it’s because I did a participation in a film.

But I work for half a year, no more.”

Catherine Deneuve

“You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.”

Catherine Deneuve

“I love to do very long and complicated scenes.”

Catherine Deneuve

“I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless.”

Catherine Deneuve

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Sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac photographed with a friend by Loomis Dean, 1961

”The only human being I could tell everything was my sister Françoise. She and I were so diametrically different; put together we would have been a fantastic woman.”

Catherine Deneuve

“I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then.
What would interest me today is to do a silent film.”

Catherine Deneuve

Loomis Dean (1917 – 2005) was a veteran Life Magazine photographer who shot pictures of circus clowns, crown princes, Hollywood stars, Madagascar lemurs and SS Andrea Doria survivors in a five-decade long career.