They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.

- Audie Murphy

I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me?

- Bette Midler

English dialogues are always just what you need and nothing more - like something out of Hemingway. In Italian and in French, dialogues are always theatrical, literary. You can do more with it.

- Bernardo Bertolucci

I am typically French.

- Brigitte Bardot

There is a certain dignity to being French.

- Brigitte Bardot

The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you.

- Bono

I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English.

- Alexa Davalos

They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.

- Arthur Boyd

I want to be adopted by the French. I want to go to live in Paris.

- Asia Argento

I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English.

- Alaina Huffman

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

- Ambrose Bierce

And I think you understand a little bit more why she falls for him. In a way, watching the French do anything is a little more fun because their gestures are different. And in that way, they make everything interesting.

- Adrian Lyne

I've dreamed of having my French bulldog become a bestselling children's heroine.

- Andrea Seigel

The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.

- Ahmed Ben Bella

There is rap music in all my films. In 'La Vie des Morts,' there is rap music too. It's because I'm French, and when it appeared in 1978, it was so new, it set off my musical imagination.

- Arnaud Desplechin

Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.

- Alain Prost

In the 1930s, there were so many different conflicts going on between the British, the French, the Russians, the Germans, the Spaniards, the Romanians and so on.

- Alan Furst

French women will always look up at a man, even if he is four inches shorter than she is.

- Alan Furst

The relentless pursuit of being different is very French.

- Alain Ducasse

I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.

- Andrea Bocelli