I read French much better than I speak.
As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.
Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies.
Conklin: What is the French word for "stakeout," huh?
Nicolette: [in French] Englishmen don't know what a tongue is for.
I want to be adopted by the French. I want to go to live in Paris.
I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English.
Birds are sensitive to mispronunciation, even more sensitive than the French.
I speak some French, Spanish, a little German and Gaelic.
You're always compared to someone, especially when you're a French actress.
The French, it seems to me, strike a happy balance between intimacy and reserve. Some of this must be helped by the language, which lends itself to graceful expression even when dealing with fairly basic subjects.... And there's that famously elegant...
WARMING UP TO the crèche turned out to be easy. Warming up to the other mothers there isn’t. I’m aware that Anglo-American-style instant bonding between women doesn’t happen in France. I’ve heard that female friendships here start out slowly...
Every town has ‘THAT house’: the one that once held dark secrets. You know the house… the one no one will purchase? The one whose walls have seen blood? The one that even birds avoid, and the darkened windows resemble empty eye sockets? There a...
Col. Hans Landa: [in French; subtitled] Monsieur LaPadite, I regret to inform you I have exhausted the extent of my French. To continue to speak it so inadequately would only serve to embarrass me. However, I've been lead to believe that you speak En...
The Jackal: What about the French documents? The Forger: French identity card's all right. The other one, I don't think I've ever seen what they look like, let alone copy it. I'll have to get a colleague of mine in France to pick someone's pocket so ...
Happier than a bird with a french fry.
Twitter is amazing. I advertised for the position of research assistant on Twitter, and both of my researchers came from there.
For me to go casual is not to go simple. To me, it is to be able to bring back the art of tradition and the soul of French food and my interpretation of that.
Perhaps you're not crazy, but you're very creative.
If it's not American, the French won't go see it.
I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.
