I'm not an American actor. I'm a French actor. I'll continue in France. If I could make another silent movie in America, I'd like to!

I watched Gene Kelly for his smile, for his energy. Vittorio Gassman for his movement. Clark Gable for his mustache. And I watched Lassie who was happy as a dog.

I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.

I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming.

I don't represent myself as a star, but an actor who wants to make movies.

I don't care about my image.

I like simple things. I like being in my family in the South and playing petanque.

I watched a lot of Douglas Fairbanks movies. He always played the same role with a mustache. Zorro had a mustache. The Musketeer had a mustache. Tarzan had a mustache.

I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.

In many cases for an actor it's a comfortable position to be in. But it's harder to fail as a director.

I don't want everyone to like me, and I don't choose who likes me. You have to give them the choice, give them the option.

Jefferson was the rare student who came to college already knowing that there could be joy in studying.

That smoke you smell is me frying your brains every time we kiss longer than twenty-three seconds.

By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.

An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does

Some people talk about finding God as if He could get lost.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

When you gaze long into the Abyss of Sustainability, the Abyss of Sustainability also gazes into you.

To have a huge, friendly whale willingly approach your boat and look you straight in the eye is without doubt one of the most extraordinary experiences on the planet.

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.

I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.