France could have all the socialism its capitalistic economy could support.
No player can become accustomed to New York's climate in August in a few days. The playing conditions, the courts in New York and France are very different.
You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water.
I don't live in France; I live in myself.
It's funny because I think that both France and Britain are known for their distinctive styles and everyone says that France is so chic and elegant but I think more than that French women are renowned for dressing in what suits them.
In England you laugh at yourselves, in France we laugh at others.
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
In France, it's always about life, normal life. We always stick with these realistic things. So when French people are dreaming about American movies, they go and see the thrillers, and Westerns, and science fiction, huge entertaining movies.
I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody.
In France, like in most countries, the respect you receive depends on your class.
In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.
I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at Rada.
The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The other is that they own France, a country which we have always judged to be much too good for them.
The German and the Brazilian market is small. When we went to France they know a lot more, than just the American comics. The audience there was much different.
France would be reluctant to embrace any proposal by the European Commission to slash agricultural tariffs if it threatened the European Union's Common Agriculture Policy.
France is the bridge between northern Europe and southern Europe. I refuse any division. If Europe has been reunified, it's not for it to then fall into egotism or 'each for one's own'. Our duty is to set common rules around the principles of responsibility and solidarity.
I've got fans and letters from Israel, France Germany, Sweden, London, Africa. They all saying pretty much the same thing, 'Yo, we love you, we need you, put some more music out, please!'
I am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my fiscal obligations.
I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.
It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.