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

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.

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.

To win in life, never forget to be content competing with yourself.

For how long will insult hurt a person? For as long as he covets self-importance. For as long as one covets temporary [non eternal] things.

The most important decision that we can make in our lives is the decision to be happy.

Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.

Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time.

Isolation and loneliness create the conditions for rapid aging. The key is to stay connected and open to new relationships throughout your life.

For me the end of the year is always a time to reflect and recharge my energies.

This is my destiny — I'm supposed to do this, dammit! Don't tell me what I can and can't do!

Everybody thinks they have the answer to how to be a good parent. Here's mine: Everybody's gonna make mistakes.

I will entertain anything; it doesn't matter. You know, it's not obviously about the price, it's not about who, it's kind of about when and what. It's material, that's all.