I'm a minimalist. I don't really need much to enjoy a good holiday - just my family and the bare essentials.

The best way to impress a woman is to be the most honest you can.

Because I was born in Casablanca and my parents were from the south of Spain, I do not have a big central root in France. I feel French but in a few ways, not at all French.

No women no kids - that's the rules.

There is no heaven on Earth. Not now anyway.

Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.

Being proud and being nationalistic are, for me, completely different things.

But I will say that most comedians are the saddest people I know. That is the biggest paradox to me.

It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them.

I don't get the romances. I did try - a film called 'Roseanna's Grave' in the 1990s. I liked it. But the audience didn't come.

I see most of my movies at festivals.

Find your path in life and travel on it.

I was a sports fan long before I had any interest in film-making.

Why should I not hate mine enemies―if I "love" them does that not place me at their mercy?

There is a middle ground in things.

I do not wish to shed a drop of blood, but 'I must fight the course.' Tis all that's left to me.

In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece

I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.

My wife's father said if you marry my daughter I'll give you three acres and a cow. I'm still waiting for the three acres.

Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example.

You must find a more empowering source of comfort, connection, and control than food. Perhaps a creative outlet, helping others, becoming active in an organization, whatever.