#french

I was picked up on a London street by a model agent. She took me to her office and then sent me to Paris to work in shows. It was supposed to be two weeks, but I ended up living there with my Zimbabwean boyfriend. I made enough money modeling and acting in French movies to buy a nice flat. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#agent #boyfriend #buy #ended #enough

The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort of masculine without being overly macho. ↗

— Michael Caine

#admire #being #bogart #dead #french

People have lots of misconceptions about me. My mum, who is half French and half Spanish, gets outraged when I'm called quintessentially English. I owe my looks to my mum-which was 90 percent of getting my first job. And, some people would argue, 90 percent of my entire career. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#argue #called #career #english #entire

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#mayonnaise #place #religion #sauces #serve

With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#although #am #archetypes #correct #doubt

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience. ↗

— Maurice Chevalier

#difference #experience #feel #forty #french

I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white wine. And then we had one of those lovely scalloped dishes and the lovely, creamery buttery sauce. Then we had a roast duck and I don't know what else. ↗

— Julia Child

#dry #duck #else #first #french

When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power. ↗

— Julia Child

#anything #baking #cake #cakes #egg

When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#came #contract #dancer #did #doing

I come from Yorkshire in England where we like to eat chip sandwiches - white bread, butter, tomato ketchup and big fat french fries cooked in beef dripping. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#big #bread #butter #chip #come