To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.

When you reach the top, you should remember to send the elevator back down for the others.

I was hungry. I was cold. But I was also free. Free not to get up in the morning, not to go to bed at night, free to get drunk if I liked, to dream... to hope.

As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.

When he takes me in his arms, and speaks to me softly, I see the world through rose-colored glasses.

Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.

My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.

All I've done all my life is disobey.

Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.

There is nothing quite like this novel with its rage and ragings, its discontent and angry restlessness. Wuthering Heights is a virgin's story.

My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.

If you're stuck in the past, you go forward in reverse

Never leave home without your memories.

People must be valued because of what they are rather than who they are.

Oh, how I longed to burst through the doors and go walking through the streets, with my hands open, like weapons!

I like to keep my private life private for the most part.

Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of which is sooner or later a cause of servitude.

To all the fantasy owners who drafted me: You're welcome.

Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, Who do you think you are?