Jean Reno famous quotes

04-14-2025

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

#Holiday #Essentials #Needs
But I will say that most comedians are the saddest people I know. That is the biggest paradox to me.
-- Jean Reno

#People #Comedian #Paradox
Being proud and being nationalistic are, for me, completely different things.
-- Jean Reno

#Different #Proud #Be Proud
No women no kids - that's the rules.
-- Jean Reno

#Kids
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.
-- Jean Reno

#Shoes #Cameras #Directors
I'd like to do plays, maybe a one man show.
-- Jean Reno

#Men #Play #Shows
At home I keep things simple with fish, pasta and soups and am often preparing stuff for the family.
-- Jean Reno

#Home #Simple #Pasta
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.
-- Jean Reno

#Romance #Trying #Film
I see most of my movies at festivals.
-- Jean Reno

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

#Thinking #Actors #Want
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.
-- Jean Reno

#Lying #Men #Giving
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.
-- Jean Reno

#Real #People #Few Friends
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.
-- Jean Reno

#America #Battle #Cinema
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.
-- Jean Reno

#Roots #Parent #Spain
There is no heaven on Earth. Not now anyway.
-- Jean Reno

#Heaven #Earth #Heaven On Earth
The best way to impress a woman is to be the most honest you can.
-- Jean Reno

#Way #Honest #Impress
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.
-- Jean Reno

#Acting #Rooms #Taught

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