France Quotes - Page 12

If I could snap my fingers and import France's health care system today, I'd do it.

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

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

I don't know Heidi Klum. She was never known in France. Claudia Schiffer also doesn't know who she is.

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.

Once I started on 'Frances' I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated me to maintain that for eighteen weeks, to be immersed in this state of rage for twelve to eighteen hours a day. It spilled all over, into other areas of my life.

For my part, my interest in Paris had faded away completely long ago when I learned that it was in France.

Listen, if the people in my district wanted to live in France, they'd move to France.

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

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

In France, history is paralyzing.

I've always felt more at home in the UK than in France.

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!

The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.

The American movie, in part because America's a melting pot, the cultural hodgepodge that America makes, generates movies that have appeal across all international boundaries. And that's really not true for most domestic film industries. It's no longer true of France and Italy, less true than it used to be of the U.K.

France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.

In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

We Americans look funny when we're in France because we don't travel, we are fairly un-cultured whereas Europeans go to Africa all the time because it's right there.

Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.

For the Soul of France is masterful history, brilliantly researched, and hard to put down.

I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.

France is France and a grand place for Frenchman.

It feels like when I write, it's intuitive. This is true of Frances, and it's true of this [The Funniest Movie Of The Summer].

Life is short, and the Tour de France long.

Cooking like everything else in France is logic and fashion.