Jean Reno Quotes

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.

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

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

No women no kids - that's the rules.

I see most of my movies at festivals.

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.

There is no heaven on Earth. Not now anyway.

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'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.

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

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.

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.

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

It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them.

I'm a minimalist. I don't really need much to enjoy a good holiday - just my family and the bare essentials.

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.

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