Yvette Mimieux Quotes

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.

When I was young, I used to expect Parisians to wear little black berets, to bicycle about with strings of onions around their necks, and to brandish long sticks of bread, just like they used to do in school textbooks.

I am typically French.

France is an old country that does not forget.

Being a France is great from a heritage standpoint.

All my life I have had a certain idea of France.

Every woman in America has a French dream in her head, especially a Parisian one.

You are the eternal France, I love you.

France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.

I love France. The French respect your privacy.

France is, for me, the country of happiness.

The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.

France is the most civilized country there is.

My life is OK. I live in France. It's a very cool country to make films.

I owe everything to France.

You can be an American or an Englishman or Canadian and be a Parisian. It's a very admirable culture, and people want to identify with it.

To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!

France? I don't want to be anti-French but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets.

I feel very close to French culture and to the French humanism, which occasionally one finds, even in the highest places. And therefore, all of my books have been written in French.

In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.

I think there is an extreme charm in the French, and actually it's their bolshiness that makes them such fun.

At the suggestion of Professor Itaru Watanabe, and with his help, I left Japan at the age of twenty-three to pursue graduate study at the University of California at San Diego.

'The Discovery of France' by Graham Robb is teaching me lots about a country I've long loved but realise I didn't really know.

I came to New York to study ballet and English.