Paris Quotes

"The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick"

Kelly Jones, Musician

"When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it"

Gordon Sinclair, Journalist

"When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris"

Jean-Jacques Annaud, Director

"It was just this crazy craziness, and the fact that it was shot in Paris, and it had these incredible people in it. It was an easy thing to say yes to"

Dianne Wiest, Actress

"I'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that"

Bryan Ferry, Musician

"Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy"

Barry Sonnenfeld, Producer

"I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.'"

Robert De Niro, Actor

"In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent"

Roman Polanski, Director

"When I look back now, it must have been like Paris was at the time of Le Sacre du Printemps"

David Baker, Composer

"I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early"

Francois Gautier, Writer

"When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States"

Lloyd Alexander, Writer

"Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris"

Lloyd Alexander, Writer

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

Kitty Carlisle, Musician

"I almost bumped into Alec Baldwin and then turned around and Paris Hilton was standing there. And I was like, 'Look, it's stupid spoiled whore.'"

Trey Parker, Artist

"In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise"

Virgil Thomson, Composer

"I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it"

Luc Ferrari, Composer

"My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and"

Karen McDougal, Model

"In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that's it!"

Itzhak Perlman, Musician

"I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle"

James Weldon Johnson, Poet

"Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris"

Thomas Gold Appleton, Critic

"When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make"

James Weldon Johnson, Poet

"So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris"

Milos Forman, Director

"When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city"

Harry Mathews, Author

"If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris"

Oscar de la Renta, Designer

"I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary"

Harry Houdini, Entertainer

"You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing"

Taylor Lautner, Actor

"If I look at it, it's about being able to get lost in New York, to explore the city, to have more personal stories about New York, although some could also take place in Paris"

Keren Ann, Musician

"I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely"

James Weldon Johnson, Poet

"We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to"

Keren Ann, Musician

"The audience that surprised us the most was definitely Paris, when we played there last. They were just incredibly into us and we weren't expecting it at all"

Jon Crosby, Musician

"In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president"

Karen Hughes, Politician

"Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered"

Kelly Miller, Sociologist

"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"

Leslie Caron, Actress

"Paris Hilton, that's very interesting what she did. I've never done that. I haven't really sort of ever got into that. As time passes, maybe I should record it and put it in a vault so that when I get a little old don't have the energy I can remember how life used to be"

Jeremy Irons, Actor

"I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out"

Gordon Parks, Photographer

"I don't know how you prepare for something like that. I cannot imagine living in a fishbowl like that. I don't live here so I don't know it will be that bad anyway because I live in Paris and we don't have that sort of phenomenon there. So I don't know, we'll see what happens"

Diane Kruger, Model

"People gave us everything for free. We were allowed only so much film per picture, but there was no limit to the creativity. I like to say that they let us loose like wild dogs in the streets of Paris"

Helmut Newton, Photographer

"A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I'm thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag"

David Letterman, Comedian

"When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation"

Jean-Jacques Annaud, Director

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