Top 36 Quotes & Sayings by Gerard Depardieu

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French actor Gerard Depardieu.

Last updated on December 3, 2024.

Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu, CQ is a French actor, filmmaker, businessman and vineyard owner since 1989 who is one of the most prolific thespians in film history having completed over 250 films since 1967 almost exclusively as a lead. Depardieu has worked with over 150 film directors whose most notable collaborations include Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Maurice Pialat, Alain Resnais, Claude Chabrol, Ridley Scott and Bernardo Bertolucci. He is the second highest grossing actor in the history of French Cinema behind Louis de Funès. As of January 2022, his body of work also include countless television productions, 18 theatre plays, 16 records and 9 books. He is mostly known as a character actor and for having portrayed numerous leading historical and fictitious figures of the Western world including Georges Danton, Joseph Stalin, Honoré de Balzac, Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Rodin, Cyrano de Bergerac, Jean Valjean, Edmond Dantès, Christopher Columbus, Obélix, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

French - Actor | Born: December 27, 1948

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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

I do this profession. I'm an actor. And it is, for me, an opportunity to meet people.

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

I consider myself a free man and a citizen of the world.

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

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

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'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

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

Gerard Depardieu

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

Gerard Depardieu

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

Gerard Depardieu

I love the police, contrary to many people.

Gerard Depardieu

I would never let myself knock out a journalist.

Gerard Depardieu

I had rapidly become aware there were problems with the Kalifa group.

Gerard Depardieu

In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.

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 gain weight and lose it again in inevitable cycles.

Gerard Depardieu

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

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 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 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

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

Gerard Depardieu

When you have heart disease, you start to be tired of everything. It's like getting older. You become more white, and after that, grey. You have no feeling for anything.

Gerard Depardieu

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

Gerard Depardieu

Hollywood exists only for the B-movies. The best things are coming from Europe.

Gerard Depardieu

My unrealized ambition is to tend my vines, produce wine, and work like an artisan. I dream of rediscovering the old traditions and customs of wine growing, not necessarily to deny the technology which we have today, but to harness it and work in harmony with nature.

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

Authenticity is the ability to listen to what nature tells us. Listening isn't the same thing as never making a mistake, but the important thing is to learn.

Gerard Depardieu

I don't snack all the time, but I do sometimes drink l more than I should.

Gerard Depardieu

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

Gerard Depardieu

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings.

Gerard Depardieu

What you eat and drink is 50 percent of life.

Gerard Depardieu

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

Gerard Depardieu

Catherine Deneuve is the man I've always wanted to be.