Jerry Hall Quotes

At my dinner parties, I like to serve cheese after the main course because you still have red wine in the glass, and it goes very well with the cheese. And that is what they do in France, and I think they set a good example.

I like French fries; I like mashed. I love potatoes.

I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.

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

My kids started school, so having a strong base in Melbourne has been a key priority. I'm not daunted by the travel. People say, 'It's so far to Australia,' and I say, 'You get on the plane, you eat well, you sleep, you wake up - and you're there.'

I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities.

To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.

The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up.

Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.

I love French stuff. Mmmm, french fries.

I'm pretty happy with the two cities I call home now - Glasgow and New York. But I'd like to give Paris a shot.

Eating among the French certainly affected me. After a few years here, I gave up most of my selective food habits.

I remember sitting in front of the British Museum and having a moment - an epiphany, I guess - that I just had to live here. And now that I have grown to understand the British sense of humour here, I love the culture, too.

Moving to France is not the hard part. Living here is more difficult. Of course there are many benefits but it's not always easy especially if you don't speak the language.

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

I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world.

We Americans look funny when we're in France because we don't travel, we are fairly un-cultured whereas Europeans go to Africa all the time because it's right there.

I like Paris. My problem is I don't like Parisians.

That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.

To know Paris is to know a great deal.

We are American at puberty. We die French.

What I find trying in a country which you do not understand and where you cannot speak, is that you can never be yourself.

I feel displaced when I'm back in America, like a visitor. I feel like if I don't get a cup of tea I'm going to lose my mind.

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

The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language.