When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time.

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

But who wants an easy life ? It's boring !

I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.

My look is a cocktail. I'm not as nicely turned out as the french, but I don't care like the English.

Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!

Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.

When I made mistakes, people used to laugh. I could have learnt better, but I've always liked to make people laugh.

Everything I wear doesnt put me in the league of women. If I were a boy, I could look a lot prettier than a lot of boys I know.

If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.

People always like things that seem exotic.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.

I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything.

The brilliant thing about baseball is you're never really out of it - things can turn around in this game so quickly.

Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.

When feelings of inadequacy come creeping in, let's park our minds in God's truth.

We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!

There is a better way to do it - Find it!

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.