French Riviera Quotes

I've got a house that's only 45 minutes from Monte Carlo.

We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters.

What makes Biarritz special, as far as I'm concerned, are the fantastic coastline, the beaches - such as the Cotes des Basques - and the sea.

Cannes is a little bit like French wine. There are certain years that people prefer over others.

France is France and a grand place for Frenchman.

The first time that I came to Cannes, I think it was in 1953, I was 18 and unknown.

I love as you come into Paris, you've got the Arch de Triomphe and all that crazy traffic. Then I love the drive from Paris down to Antibes and you veer off east in through the Alps and you come into the south of France on the mountain road as opposed to the freeway.

We've been back since July, but I spent some time with the family in the south of France over the summer. We rented a house with another couple and took it easy.

In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

When we grew up, our family and kind of gaggle of cousins would go to the south of France for the summers. And we just had a grand time.

I adore Biarritz. I first went there in the Eighties, and my wife and I liked it so much that we ended up buying a holiday home there.

For years I have been going to the South of France to cool out.

I would love to live in Paris and speak French. That would make me feel glamorous!

France is, for me, the country of happiness.

I love France. France is a nice place.

I was in Cannes two years ago at our 'U23D' movie premiere. I love the French.

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

For many years I enjoyed the pleasure of cruising on my yacht all summer long and these were my best holidays. In mid-May, we'd start in St Tropez. I'd collect my bikinis from my home there and then we'd go up to Cannes for the Film Festival, on to Monte Carlo for the Grand Prix and then to Italy.

There's something about the air and the sky and the atmosphere in the South of France that must be very conducive to work, to being creative, because I have written several of my books there. I find it so much easier because you're cut off. If you don't want to speak to anybody, basically they don't know where you are. And it's so beautiful.

I live in Paris, yet Monaco, where I spend a lot of time, holds a very special place in my heart.

I am first of all from La Castellane and Marseille.

I like to relax in the South of France. The weather is so good, the food is so good, and it is perfect because we can all speak French.

You were never told that Saint-Tropez is paradise?

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

I loved Marseille when I was a boy.