France Quotes - Page 38

• I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens is they lose confidence, they lose focus and the young film-makers of any particular generation can very easily get lost in that mix. It's happened in Italy, happened in France, happened in the U.K. during my lifetime.

  David Puttnam

  Country, Focus, Generations

  4 Copy quote

• I'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that.

  Bryan Ferry

  Memories, Paris, One Day

  4 Copy quote

• I don't ever want to stop learning. And I really want to learn French fluently. It would be great to go and live in France.

  Alexa Chung

  Would Be, Want

  "She's the one" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

  Vincent Cassel

  New York, Drama, School

  "France's most wanted". Interview with Jason Solomons, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my fiscal obligations.

  Bernard Arnault

  People, Residents, Taxes

  "France's Richest Man Bernard Arnault Sues Liberation Over Headline" by Stuart Kemp, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 11, 2012.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur.

  Bernard Arnault

  Entrepreneur, Childhood, My Family

  "Chairman of LVMH, Bernard Arnault". "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. February 12, 2005.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Men, Thinking, Fortune

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  School, Parent, Montreal

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was lucky to live 10 years in France, so I learned how to eat and drink there.

  Lorraine Bracco

  Years, Lucky, Drink

  5 Copy quote

• It is not really our country so much is the problem, it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us.

  Bob Corker

  Country, Canada, Problem

  6 Copy quote

• The type of cuisine I do, especially after being on 'Iron Chef' for several years, is a lot of global cuisine. My strength has always been Mediterranean cuisine across the board from Morocco, Spain, Italy, Greece, France, but I think now I'm doing a lot of very different cuisines all the time.

  Cat Cora

  Thinking, Years, Iron

  "Chef Cat Cora says "Bon Appetit" at Sundance". Interview with Jane Clark, www.reuters.com. January 20, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am very proud to be a part of the Livestrong Foundation. I am maybe only a member but I give everything I can to be sure that people understand that cancer is a disease for everybody - not only in France, in Europe, in Asia, it is all over the world. We must fight together, we must make something to fight the cancer, we must Livestrong.

  Gregoire Akcelrod

  Cancer, Fighting, Europe

  7 Copy quote

• I've had gay friends who grew up in small towns in France who had to lie for most of their lives, even to themselves. But eventually such lies become stronger than the people, and they have to face them.

  Guillaume Canet

  Lying, Gay, People

  10 Copy quote

• I was in the South of France. I saw a Brownie on a school trip. She was holding up a book. It said on the front 'rough guide'. I thought: 'Yeah' she's not a looker.

  Jimmy Carr

  Book, School, Saws

  15 Copy quote

• I'm not an American actor. I'm a French actor. I'll continue in France. If I could make another silent movie in America, I'd like to!

  Jean Dujardin

  America, Actors, Silent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In France, I have lots of opportunities. Maybe now I'll be offered films in America. It's the encounter, with the director and the story that counts.

  Jean Dujardin

  Opportunity, America, Directors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• France does not practice revenge.

  Francois Fillon

  Revenge, Practice, Doe

  4 Copy quote

• The Europeans must now honor their commitments. That is the position that France is defending.

  Francois Fillon

  Commitment, Honor, Position

  6 Copy quote

• When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds.

  Mireille Guiliano

  United States, Size, Pounds

  11 Copy quote

• Being and working in America, it's very important to work hard, work smart and work in a certain way. France and Europe has, with the tradition and culture, it's slow-moving and it's not always good.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Smart, Moving, Hard Work

  "Food, fear and business success". Interview with Jessica Ravitz, www.cnn.com. December 30, 2009.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was the little French boy who grew up hearing people talk of De Gaulle and the Resistance. France against the Nazis! Then when that boy grew up, he began to uncover things. We began to legitimately ask the question, 'What exactly did our parents do during the Occupation?' We discovered it was not the story they were telling us.

  Jacques Audiard

  Boys, People, Parent

  "All that glisters..." by Peter Lennon, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2002.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I hoped that, you know, France wouldn't mind about, you know, the wife of their president to having a job.

  Carla Bruni

  Jobs, Wife, Mind

  Interview with Barbara Walters, abcnews.go.com. August 1, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is hard to imagine that, having downgraded the US, S & P will not follow suit on at least one of the other members of the dwindling club of sovereign AAAs. If this were to materialise and involve a country like France, for example, it could complicate the already fragile efforts by Europe to rescue countries in its periphery.

  Mohamed El-Erian

  Country, Europe, Effort

  4 Copy quote

• The Spanish government, having run completely out of money, secretly sold the Pyrenees to China, and is now separated from France only by traffic cones.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Running, Travel

  5 Copy quote

• France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.

  Raoul Dufy

  Art, Eight, Long

  5 Copy quote