Jean Reno Quotes

#1. I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.

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#2. If it's a romantic holiday, the only thing I need is my wife. We love quiet and calm places where we can't be disturbed. Neither of us likes being in busy places; we would much rather stay in our hotel room and enjoy each other's company.

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#3. I have a strong accent; it limits the roles, of course it does. I guess if I had moved to America a long time ago maybe my accent would have got less.

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#4. It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them.

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#5. The best way to impress a woman is to be the most honest you can.

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#6. I first decided to become an actor at school. A teacher gave us a play to do and that had a major impact. At first, I wanted to work in the theatre, but there was something about the ambience of film, especially American films, that always attracted me.

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#7. Everywhere in the world, you find good things.

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#8. I don't think you lose culture because you act different cultures.

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#9. I don't feel like I have to be nationalistic French because I'm afraid of losing whatever. No, no, no, no. And also I don't think we are the best.

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#10. When I am up in Paris then the restaurant which has remained my favourite for the past decade is Guy Savoy. The menu is huge, sophisticated and very creative but I keep to simple choices.

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#11. I can walk into a room and create a good ambience. I was taught all about this back when I studied acting. One of the things they would teach you is how to send out positive signals when you enter a room. I am glad I learned this.

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#12. I don't get the romances. I did try - a film called 'Roseanna's Grave' in the 1990s. I liked it. But the audience didn't come.

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#13. 'American Graffiti' stayed in my mind, but I don't think to this day I've done a film that captured that same level of melancholy. It was so well done. Talking about it has given me the idea I might try harder to make that melancholy film!

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#14. I see most of my movies at festivals.

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#15. There is no heaven on Earth. Not now anyway.

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#16. I went to drama school in Paris and started doing theatre with a friend. Then I moved into movies and slowly but surely I got roles.

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#17. But I will say that most comedians are the saddest people I know. That is the biggest paradox to me.

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#18. I'd like to do plays, maybe a one man show.

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#19. I'm a minimalist. I don't really need much to enjoy a good holiday - just my family and the bare essentials.

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#20. In France, if you have any sort of talent, you'd better keep it here. And if you're going to go abroad, it had better not be America. The old battle - American versus Frog cinema. It's ridiculous.

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#21. No women no kids - that's the rules.

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#22. Being proud and being nationalistic are, for me, completely different things.

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#23. At home I keep things simple with fish, pasta and soups and am often preparing stuff for the family.

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#24. I was a banker in Morocco when I first saw 'American Graffiti.' It was before I was an actor, a melancholy time in my life, and this mood was reflected in the film.

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#25. The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has had many people to love.

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#26. Because I was born in Casablanca and my parents were from the south of Spain, I do not have a big central root in France. I feel French but in a few ways, not at all French.

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#27. Croatia is an amazing place.

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#28. Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.

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