French Quotes

I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.

Who ever said that one was born just once?

Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.

As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scen.

I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.

Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?

Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

The substance of painting is light.

I do not innovate. I transmit.

The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.

One of the advantages of my profession is I come into contact with many people.

In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.

If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores.

I've had affairs. But I'm not the sort of man who has 10,000 affairs.

I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live.

I'm curious about people. That's what I've always done since I've been a small boy. I'm curious about others.

I would never let myself knock out a journalist.

I never really like the characters I play. I only come to love them afterwards.

I like the idea of bringing cartoon characters to life... and although the Americans have already attempted this, their culture is not sufficiently humane to make it work.

I have learnt a lot about my body since my heart attack. I don't drink as much now as before.

I had rapidly become aware there were problems with the Kalifa group.

I don't snack all the time, but I do sometimes drink l more than I should.

I do this profession. I'm an actor. And it is, for me, an opportunity to meet people.

Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a great chef, there's nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn't.

Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.