Carla Bruni Quotes

I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.

It would never occur to me to judge anyone.

In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.

I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas.

I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer.

I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.

I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!

We don't need to be feminist in my generation.

I care about writing music and playing my music.

I want a man with nuclear power.

It's always astounded me to have succeeded at having kids. It's crazy!

My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.

I'm monogamous from time to time, but I prefer polygamy and polyandry.

I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.

I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.

I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.

I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.

I like peace and solitude and silence.

I hoped that, you know, France wouldn't mind about, you know, the wife of their president to having a job.

I'm not really a femme fatale.

Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.

My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.

I'm crazy about Israel. It's full of life.

Love lasts a long time but burning desire lasts two to three weeks.

I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.

I can no longer seduce because I love my husband ... I don't want to hurt him. I am no longer a man-eater.