You know French means like sophisticated, well educated, so far.

You know French means like sophisticated, well educated, so far.

Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people.

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

I think it's almost easier to make people cry than to make people laugh.

You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you.

It is something actresses need to go through and I think they look forward to being naked in a movie. I don't know why, but it is something you need to exhaust from yourself.

Oh, I'm not English, I cannot talk on behalf of an English person. I'm French. I can say about French. They are quite emotional, though, and they talk about their emotions.

But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you are always an actress.

There is no doubt that this film is autobiographical, but at the same time it also tries to portray an ordinary couple in a language that everyone can understand.

Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language.

I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too.

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English.

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

I'm a good storyteller.

And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies.

Mel Gibson would not be a good James Bond.

What I am interested in is the present time.

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with.

I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.

Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.

Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you.

All I will say is that I'm playing a lot of different roles that, to be honest, are more interesting and demanding than any I've played before.

I felt sometimes too responsible as an actor because people promote violence or weird things that I don't want to be part of.

I need the seasons to live to the rhythm of rain and sun.

I think I'm a tough person, but for sure, I would talk under torture.

Everybody has an inferiority complex when they step into a room. But then when you have children and you get older, it doesn't really matter. When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train.

In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.

West Bengal belongs to Bengalis. We should live here like a king and not as servants.

Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what would have been if I had stayed in Wisconsin.

It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies of Kim Jong Il.

Keep your head on the ball. You've got to hit it first, then look where it goes. People get in trouble when they look for where the ball's going, and they haven't even hit it yet.

Practical gifts are another great way to be thoughtful, and they work for anything from birthdays to dinner-party gifts.

When I was in college I did a lot of comedy.

I think my fans would probably be surprised to know I'm not insane - I'm not a crazy person in real life. I'm a pretty low-key dude. I like chilling at home and playing with my dog.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

I wanted to act when I was young. When I was 12, I asked the head of English at my school, 'Can I audition?' and he said, 'What would we want you for?' And I remember going, 'Oh yeah. Why would they want me?'

Everything has some consciousness, and we tap into that. It is about energy at its most basic level.

It's about putting in the hours and going through the paces.

May I always be found 'on the Lord's errand.'

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.

I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!

NASA's been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve, and it's sad that we are turning the program in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation it provides to young people.

I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

Salt is the policeman of taste: it keeps the various flavors of a dish in order and restrains the stronger from tyrannizing over the weaker.

A moment of gratitude makes a difference in your attitude.