Elmaleh Quotes

#1. What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.

Naomie Harris

#2. Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger invenometh the flesh and loseth her sting, and so lives a drone ever after.

Joseph Hall

#3. Comedy in America is very serious. Either they laugh, or they don't.

Gad Elmaleh

#4. My name, my origins, my background and my experiences are what leveraged my success. The angle of the immigrant, through which I examined the reality in France, distinguished me.

Gad Elmaleh

#5. Morocco is completely alive for me because I spent about a third of my life there. The first few times I went back to Casablanca, I walked through the streets and remembered how years earlier I had walked those same streets and prayed that a miracle would happen and I would leave and become famous.

Gad Elmaleh

#6. I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.

Gad Elmaleh

#7. I would be surprised if there weren't some owners who didn't want to get a deal done right now and get back to playing hockey.

Luke Richardson

#8. Everyone ought to decide his or her own fate.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. I'm a believer in the benefits of translation. It's a necessity and a privilege - it would be awful to be limited to reading authors who's work was composed in the languages I happen to have learned.

Daniel Alarcon

#10. Actually, I don't like dogs. I'm from Morocco, and people there don't like animals.

Gad Elmaleh

#11. There is a fool born every minute

P.T. Barnum

#12. Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex - not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.

Gad Elmaleh

#13. Oxnard was the biggest city in Ventura County. Its unattractive name was that of a sugar beet farmer who built a processing plant in the settlement in the late nineteenth century. The city totally surrounded Port Hueneme, where there was a small U.S. Navy base.

Michael Connelly

#14. My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view.

Gad Elmaleh

#15. When you see something from afar, you develop a fantasy. But when you see it up close, 9 times out of 10, you wish you hadn't.

Josh Hartnett

#16. I go to New York to see live shows, not movies.

Gad Elmaleh

#17. You bet they did. Dellray was there. You should've seen him. He ordered every other case put on hold and said if metallurgy report wasn't in your hands ASAP there'd be one mean mother - you get the picture - reaming their - you get the rest of the picture.

Jeffery Deaver

#18. There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Gad Elmaleh

#19. My dad has been a big influence on me, because he's always had his own business. He really taught me business sense and how to be a focused individual, but also how to have fun and make everyone around you have fun.

Wiz Khalifa

#20. There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Maggie Kuhn

#21. I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.

Gad Elmaleh

#22. Sometimes he will sit on the carpet in front of you, looking at you with eyes so melting, so caressing and so human, that they almost frighten you, for it is impossible to believe that a soul is not there.

Theophile Gautier

#23. I want to surprise people and do different things and maybe do something that's not quite financially rewarding.

Taron Egerton

#24. They went and found somewhere, and had a sorting out, nothing held back. Sometimes nothing less than savage discharge can express, can explain, can release the hard, hard place we're in.

Gwyneth Jones

#25. When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it; merci.' But I'm not interested in that.

Gad Elmaleh