Daily Inspiration Quote by Catherine Deneuve

Pleasure, in Deneuve's mouth, isn’t a perk; it’s a symptom. “I don’t enjoy. I suffer from enjoying” flips the usual celebrity script - the one where indulgence is marketed as liberation. She’s describing enjoyment as something that happens to you, almost like an allergy: involuntary, destabilizing, followed by consequences. That little grammar twist (“suffer from”) turns desire into an affliction, which is both funny and quietly severe.

Then she lands the punchline: “It’s very Christian.” Not pious, not spiritual - Christian as in culturally trained guilt. The joke works because it names a familiar Western reflex: pleasure must be paid for. Enjoyment is never clean; it arrives with an invoice called shame. Deneuve is too controlled a screen presence to be casually confessional, which makes the line read as performance and critique at once: she’s admitting a neurosis while also diagnosing an entire moral tradition.

The subtext carries extra charge given her persona. Deneuve’s career is built on icy composure and erotic restraint; she’s often cast as the woman whose desire is coded, contained, punished, or aestheticized. So the line doubles as a meta-commentary on the roles that made her iconic - narratives where female pleasure is either pathologized or redeemed through suffering. Calling it “very Christian” is her sly way of saying: don’t mistake this for personal drama. It’s a cultural script, and she knows her lines.