You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.

I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.

I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.

We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.

Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.

To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.

I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.

In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.

The important thing is staying together if you want to do something special.

After a desperate fight, to know to congratulate your opponent, if he has beaten you, to shake his hand and go for a drink with him, in my eyes these things are particularly important.

We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.

Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.

It's so crazy in Hollywood.

But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in it, that it will be natural, and we shall choose it from time to time.

Everything was meant to wind people up [in Make It Big ]. I don't know why we had this great pleasure in winding people up, but we really did think they would get the joke. And it backfired on us.

So you can't dance? Not at all? Not even one step? How can you say that you've taken any trouble to live when you won't even dance?

I came from a huge extended family of musicians.

My films are doing well in Polish cinemas, so I don't really have problems financing them, and my international accolades are helpful.

Crime shows are really popular, in general, but usually, at the end of every episode, you have to let go of the people that you've invested in and then, the next week, get somebody else.

And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it.