Carla Bruni Quotes

I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.

I'm not really a femme fatale.

I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me.

Love lasts a long time but burning desire lasts two to three weeks.

It's always astounded me to have succeeded at having kids. It's crazy!

I'm monogamous from time to time, but I prefer polygamy and polyandry.

I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas.

I want a man with nuclear power.

I like peace and solitude and silence.

I can no longer seduce because I love my husband. I don’t want to hurt him. I am no longer a man-eater.

Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.

I never think about what people are going think about me.

I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.

I care about writing music and playing my music.

Everyone needs acknowledgement. When we're kids, we need it from our parents. If you don't get love from your family, you're destroyed inside.

But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.

I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.

In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.

I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!

My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.

It would never occur to me to judge anyone.

My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.

I'm crazy about Israel. It's full of life.

I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.

I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.

Feminism is just like HIV awareness: It's not something we don't need anymore, it's something that is just as important as it was a few decades ago. It is a very important fight.

To me, the most poetic and intelligent way to bring up a subject is by showing very simply who you are and what you believe in.

I hoped that, you know, France wouldn't mind about, you know, the wife of their president to having a job.

I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer.

We don't need to be feminist in my generation.

When I met Eric Clapton, I was a very young girl. I was 20 years old. And we were linked for a very short time, and then we became friends. And then we lost touch, which I'm really sorry about.

I'm a cat. You know cat's don't like to go outside. They actually drop their smell all over a place, and that becomes their place. So when you live with a cat, you actually live at the cat's house.

I am cursed with computers something always goes wrong.

I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength it just gives loneliness.