Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.

I was hungry. I was cold. But I was also free. Free not to get up in the morning, not to go to bed at night, free to get drunk if I liked, to dream... to hope.

Death is the beginning of something.

To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.

All I've done all my life is disobey.

Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.

Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.