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.
I’m a minimalist. I don’t really need much to enjoy a good holiday – just my family and the bare essentials.
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.
But I will say that most comedians are the saddest people I know. That is the biggest paradox to me.
Being proud and being nationalistic are, for me, completely different things.
I’d like to do plays, maybe a one man show.
At home I keep things simple with fish, pasta and soups and am often preparing stuff for the family.
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.
I see most of my movies at festivals.
It is an actor’s defect. I want everybody to like me, so I’ll say what I think will please them.
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.
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.
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.
There is no heaven on Earth. Not now anyway.
The best way to impress a woman is to be the most honest you can.
No women, no kids – that’s the rule.