Daily Inspiration Quote by Gerard Depardieu

Depardieu’s line lands like a shrug with a cigarette dangling from it: a confession engineered to feel almost responsible. “I’ve had affairs” is the preemptive strike - he concedes the sin before anyone can weaponize it. Then comes the real move: “But I’m not the sort of man...” He’s not denying behavior; he’s denying identity. The sentence tries to relocate the argument from actions (affairs) to essence (the “sort of man”), where the standards are fuzzier and sympathy is easier to negotiate.

The “10,000” is doing heavy cultural lifting. It’s obviously hyperbole, a cartoon number that makes the accusation sound hysterical, tabloid, unserious. By pushing the claim into absurdity, he invites the audience to laugh at the extremity and, by association, discount whatever real pattern might exist. It’s also a neat bit of self-mythology: Depardieu as the earthy, excessive Frenchman, yes, but not a monster - just a man with appetites.

Context matters because Depardieu’s public persona has long been built on size, unruliness, and a kind of old-school libertine charm. In a post-#MeToo environment, that charm reads less like roguishness and more like entitlement. The quote is an attempt to preserve the former by admitting just enough to seem candid while drawing a bright line against the latter. It’s reputation management masquerading as honesty: a bid to keep “affairs” in the realm of romantic misbehavior, not predation, not compulsion, not abuse.