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I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork.

I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.

I'm in a very lucky position. You have to remember that 95 percent of all actors aren't working. I'm actually able to go to France and work. It's a situation I couldn't have dreamt up.

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!

In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.

I'm very happy in France making movies.

In England, philosophers are honoured, respected; they rise to public offices, they are buried with the kings... In France warrants are issued against them, they are persecuted, pelted with pastoral letters: Do we see that England is any the worse for it?

I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.

In France, everybody realized that God exists, and that he is back in the French international team. God is back, there is little left to say.

In France, a first lady has no status, and therefore she isn't supposed to do anything else.

In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma.

"In France," Marcel said with wintry dignity, "accidents occur in the bedroom, not the kitchen.

In France a lot of songs were ruined by their associations with commercials. But so far no Apple commercial has ruined a song for me.

In France, it is television that pays for films to be made and I received all of my funding from TV: two television channels, government funding and distributor contribution (Wild Bunch). My films are low-budget, and not expensive [to make].

In France, I would like to worth with Patrice Chereau, who made Queen Margot.

In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it.

In France a woman will not go to sleep until she has talked over affairs of state with her lover or her husband.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

In France, they make you feel that you cannot be two things at the same time. You can't be French and Arabic; you can't be French and Muslim.

In France, anyone can use your music on like a TV show or whatever - they don't need to ask permission. It's almost like a child when it has its own life.

In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

In France, I learned about wine and cheese.

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

In #‎ France we have a saying, 'Joie de Vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.

In France you cannot not have lunch. If you stopped the French from having lunch, you will have a second revolution, I can tell you this. Not going to work - it is part of the French privilege.

In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.

In France, it's very suspect when you have a success.

In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.

In the circumstances in which the Republic finds itself, the constitution cannot be inaugurated; it would destroy itself. The provisional government of France is revolutionary until there is peace.

In some ways England is more liberal than France, but I also find it more intrusive. But when you go abroad you have to accept the ways of where you live. I have to respect that.

In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy.

I plan to send my liver somewhere in France, to protest foie gras (liver pate) ... I plan to have handbags made from my skin ... and an umbrella stand made from my seat.

In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.

I really and definitely think that France has the capability to come forward. The EU should maintain their own position, without influence.

I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.

I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.

Is French kissing in France just called kissing?

I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine.

I spent my time very nicely in many ways, but not fully satisfactory. Then I became Professor in France, but realized that I was not - for the job that I should spend my life in.

I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can.

It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.

It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don't put on all their rings and all their bracelets.

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.

It's because of this massive immigration and more in some places, (that) France's image has undeniably changed. There are a number of neighborhoods where you are no longer living a French life. That's undeniable.

It's really a drag to sit around when you're old, and think, 'Ah, gee, I never went to France.' Go to France. Life is very short; you've got to pack it all in there.

It's funny because I think that both France and Britain are known for their distinctive styles and everyone says that France is so chic and elegant but I think more than that French women are renowned for dressing in what suits them.

I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use.

I've always considered the French-speaking part of Switzerland as a province of France.

I was born in New York, then I went to the UK, then I went to Brazil, then I went to France, then I studied in Italy. My life was always about being confronted with an environment where you had to adapt.