I think I was pretty much hated in France. The French press ignored me. There was a movement when the children of celebrities faced strong animosity.
Just because you win the French Open it doesn't mean you can do well at Wimbledon.
I don't think it's a low point being in the finals of the French Open, three points away from the victory.
Almost anything is edible with a dab of French mustard on it.
My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.
Nowadays I actually cook Italian-style food more than French heavy sauces. I make a good salad, some great roasted vegetables, grilled fish. I'm crazy about L.A. because at the farmers' market you find all kinds of wild mushrooms.
I'd like to be reincarnated as a French tart. They're so beautiful and delicate - they're like my opposite. I'm more of a comfort food: goat cheese with garlic.
I find that there are a lot of similarities between French and Japanese food. I think they're two countries that have really systemized their cuisine and codified it.
I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all.
I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.
I've got a great relationship with my dad, but I can imagine how annoying it would be if I had to move back into his house.
The future's come and gone; it's a thing of the past. That once impossibly exotic expression 'the year 2000,' for so long evocative of silver suits and robots in pinnies, now feels antiquated.
It was a scandal when I did French 'Playboy' in 2008, though I was never actually nude in it. I think it's really funny that I'll have a cover of 'Playboy' to show my grandkids.
I feel a little schizophrenic because my life is so totally different from here, obviously. And the French values are so different from American values.
To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand.
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language.
Sunday's my day off, where I eat whatever I want. I don't not let myself have something. I do love French fries and bread.
I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably.
The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.
As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy.
