Antoine Arnault Quotes

Very early, I thought I would go into music, but I was aware that it would bring a set of obstacles I didn't find particularly attractive. Also, I'm not a great performer! For a while, I thought I would do something in landscape gardening. But it was always fashion for me.

I'm glad I'm getting to do interesting films.

Why did I take fashion photographs? I thought it was fun. And there was a lot of money.

I realised as a teenager that I was destined for a creative life and found that fashion design was something I enjoyed and was a potentially successful career path.

I think I would rather be a prime minister than a taxi driver.

I don't want to be an editor - I want to be really forward about that. I would be a horrible editor.

I know it's a cliche, but I didn't want to work in an office.

I've been offered a couple of shows that have been very successful, but they weren't right for me. It has to be something I could be excited about for a long time.

I had been in a band in college. You kind of need to make a choice between going the music route or going the acting route. I chose acting, figuring I could always do the music on my own.

A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.

Acting is not terribly important work, and I have always felt a bit of guilt about pursuing something that is so selfish. I love doing it, but it is never something that feels like it's going to change or save the world.

I'm more interested in producing than acting.

I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

I've never categorically been a banker. I had two internships while I was at university. The decision was more banking, or magic, and I went with the latter.

When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art.

The day I went to see my father to say I wanted to become an architect, he was a bit surprised, because for him being a builder is much more than being just an architect. He was very angry, and I never thought I could do something else.

I could probably make more money if I did more commercial projects.

I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.

I would rather be a security guard than a rock star.

I have done lots of music projects in my life and some of them I am more proud of than others.

I mean, I would have loved to have kept on being a big television star. If that's the way things would have broke, I would have loved to have done that. I just didn't really want to continue and be someone who took whatever was offered.

I don't know why modeling worked for me, because I'm short. But I liked it because it let me buy my own furniture.

My son doesn't really want to model as a career, so I am not worried about him entering into the industry.

I do like to buy my own clothes because I like to support designers. I know the work that goes into it.

I think there's this assumption that everybody would rather be a director, and I don't know that that's the case for me, so we'll see.