Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.

I don't feel restricted by the language: I feel more free.

I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.

But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.

And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.

I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.

If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.

But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that's maybe what helped me to get the part.

I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.

Imagination creates some big monsters.

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.

It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.

I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.

I'll always be a foreigner.

I don't have goals in life.

People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.

I want just to be happy and peaceful. And that's not always the case when you're married.

My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.

I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.

Before, I was so stupid. But, you know, when you have friends who died on the street, you say, okay, let's calm down. It's not the kind of energy I want to have in life. I want to go slower, and longer.

I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.

The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video.

It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.

I always say I was born too late in the world, too old.

It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit.

If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?

Love is based on imagination.

I played a scene at the end of my first year, and that's how I was discovered.

I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.

I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.

Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it.

The big difference with Juliette and the others in that film is that she goes beyond acting.

Who knows what happens tomorrow? We'll find it tomorrow.

And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.

I never analyze why I was with one woman instead of another.

'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it.

English football has just had a transfer window imposed for the first time, so it will be interesting to see how managers cope with the squads they have until it re-opens.

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it.

It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.

I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.

No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.