French Quotes

But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.

Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

My talk show takes place in bed, in Italy.

I've tried to tell a story. For me, it is the best one.

I hate to spread rumours, but what else can one do with them?

I am not interested in releasing best of stuff and I have not given my permission. You release best of packages when you're a has-been and have nothing new to offer.

You're always compared to someone, especially when you're a French actress.

Well, it gives me the opportunity to make the movies that I want to do, because L'Oreal pays me very well. Also it means that I can work with great directors. My last commercial was directed by Erick Zonca, who made 'Dream Life of Angels.' And finally, it doesn't take up a lot of my time.

Usually most characters I play are quite realistic.

I'm pretty normal looking.

DiCaprio's life is the perfect example of how not to be. I would not wish his life on anybody.

And I would never accept a film because of the money. I have enough money.

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

Languages are true analytical methods.

It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one.

It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.

A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.

One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.

Workers of France, it is for the freedom of the prisoners that you will go to work in Germany! It is for our country that you will go in large numbers!

We have given most of Europe to Hitler. Let us try to hold on to what we have got left.

It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man.

It is in order that France may find her place in the new Europe that you will respond to my appeal.

In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war.

I want to tell you that I think this war is a great mistake.

I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German victory is preferable to a British and Soviet victory.

I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.

I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.

France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her.

But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.