It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.

I don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell.

You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.

A well-trained cat doesn't exist because a cat remains a cat.

Anything that has a relationship with pleasure we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about Aids; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.

We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.

If you have a little sensibility or a heart, you have all the reason to be depressed once in a while. But the depression is like a motor for creation. I need a little bit of depression, a bit of acid in my stomach, to be able to create. When I'm happy, I just want to dance.