Gerard Depardieu Quotes

I don't care about Hollywood films. I'm not against Hollywood films, you know? Hollywood films were very good before, in the 1950s.

I never really like the characters I play. I only come to love them afterwards.

My only model for being a father was my father, an illiterate on the margin of society.

I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live.

One of the advantages of my profession is I come into contact with many people.

I'd rather not have an address in France but an address in Italy because I love the country.

The stage is like a cage of light. People are no longer afraid of you - they are the ones out there in the dark, watching.

I consider myself a free man and a citizen of the world.

I want to get more involved with the vineyards I have all over the world and to spend more time with the people who work in them.

In Hollywood, you still have wonderful actors, but it's so hard to work there. To work becomes a Kafka nightmare - it's the last communist country!

Catherine Deneuve is the man I've always wanted to be.

I love the police, contrary to many people.

I don't snack all the time, but I do sometimes drink l more than I should.

Hollywood exists only for the B-movies. The best things are coming from Europe.

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings.

I've had affairs. But I'm not the sort of man who has 10,000 affairs.

I had rapidly become aware there were problems with the Kalifa group.

If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores.

I do this profession. I'm an actor. And it is, for me, an opportunity to meet people.

I am a free man. I feel at home everywhere in Europe.

The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.

What you eat and drink is 50 percent of life.

I'm curious about people. That's what I've always done since I've been a small boy. I'm curious about others.

I gain weight and lose it again in inevitable cycles.

The wine I produce is not for keeping. It's the wine you want when meeting friends for a game of cards.

I have learnt a lot about my body since my heart attack. I don't drink as much now as before.

In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.

I would never let myself knock out a journalist.