One of the advantages of my profession is I come into contact with many people.

- Gerard Depardieu

I like the idea of bringing cartoon characters to life... and although the Americans have already attempted this, their culture is not sufficiently humane to make it work.

- Gerard Depardieu

The wine I produce is not for keeping. It's the wine you want when meeting friends for a game of cards.

- Gerard Depardieu

The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.

- Gerard Depardieu

My only model for being a father was my father, an illiterate on the margin of society.

- Gerard Depardieu

In Hollywood, you still have wonderful actors, but it's so hard to work there. To work becomes a Kafka nightmare - it's the last communist country!

- Gerard Depardieu

If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores.

- Gerard Depardieu

I'm curious about people. That's what I've always done since I've been a small boy. I'm curious about others.

- Gerard Depardieu

I'm an actor. And it is, for me, an opportunity to meet people. One of the advantages of my profession is I come into contact with many people.

- Gerard Depardieu

I'd rather not have an address in France but an address in Italy because I love the country.

- Gerard Depardieu

I would never let myself knock out a journalist.

- Gerard Depardieu

I want to get more involved with the vineyards I have all over the world and to spend more time with the people who work in them.

- Gerard Depardieu

I have learnt a lot about my body since my heart attack. I don't drink as much now as before.

- Gerard Depardieu

I don't care about Hollywood films. I'm not against Hollywood films, you know? Hollywood films were very good before, in the 1950s.

- Gerard Depardieu

I am a free man. I feel at home everywhere in Europe.

- Gerard Depardieu

I'd rather spend my time with grape growers than actors. In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.

- Gerard Depardieu

Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a great chef, there's nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn't.

- Gerard Depardieu

I've had affairs. But I'm not the sort of man who has 10,000 affairs.

- Gerard Depardieu

I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live.

- Gerard Depardieu

I never really like the characters I play. I only come to love them afterwards.

- Gerard Depardieu