Jean Reno Quotes

• 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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  Holiday, Essentials, Needs

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

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  Way, Honest, Impress

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• 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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  Lying, Men, Giving

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

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  Different, Proud, Nationalistic

  "Hollywood's favourite Frenchman" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2007.

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

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  People, Comedian, Paradox

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• There is no heaven on Earth. Not now anyway.

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  Heaven, Earth, Heaven On Earth

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• 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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  Thinking, Actors, Want

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• 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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  Acting, Back When, Rooms

  "Pint of Milk, Jean Reno". Empire Magazine (No. 255) Interview, 2010.

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• 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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  Roots, Parent, Spain

  "Hollywood's favourite Frenchman". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2007.

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• No women no kids - that's the rules.

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  Kids

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• 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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  Real, People, Few Friends

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

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  Home, Simple, Pasta

  "My favourite table". Interview with Toby Rose, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2008.

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• Sometimes I take the watch, or I take the shoes, but usually the souvenir is to take the life you had with those directors, or the crew - the camera person, the lighting person. When you finish a film it's like a little death. You had a family for a bit, and you finish the movie and you probably will never see each other again.

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  Shoes, Cameras, Directors

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• 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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  Romance, Trying, Film

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• I see most of my movies at festivals.

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  Festivals

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• 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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  America, Battle, Cinema

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

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  Men, Play, Shows

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