Quotes by Alain Delon

 

Alain Delon

QUOTES

by Alain Delon

• I like to be loved like I love myself.
• I do very well three things: my job, stupidities and children.
• In love, we have to dare everything if we really love.
• I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.
• I don't really have the fear of death. I think to life.
• You believe in God, then you don't believe anymore and when you have a big problem, you pray anyway...
• Jean-Marie Le Pen is a friend. He is dangerous for the political set because he's the only one who's sincere. He says out loud what many people think deep down, and what the politicians refrain from saying because they are either too demagogic or too chicken. Le Pen, with all his faults and qualities, is probably the only one who thinks about the interests of France before his own.
• Marginalized? I was marginalized all my life. I was the only one who couldn't be part of any union, any actor's committee, etc. I've always been on my own. And at the outset of my career they didn't like me because of this. And I've always been in the margin. This hasn't stopped me from making my career.
• [why he's in favor of capitol punishment] I believe that there are things that can't be excused, that can't be allowed. And that there are people, and I am telling this frankly, that for certain acts cannot stay on the earth. That's my opinion, and it concerns only me.
• I say what I think, when I want it, when I like it. You can't stop me from saying anything.
• I'm extremely shy. I need to know them very well before feeling comfortable around people.
• [In TV interviews] I'm always afraid to disappoint the audience.
• I have aggressiveness in me, which is based on the principle: attack to defend oneself.
• [Is there a potential loner in you?] I think we're all loners, to differing degrees.
• Belmondo [Jean-Paul Belmondo] is the audience's friend. I'm not. And I'm responsible for it, because of my attitude. I'm not as easy-going. That's my nature. I'm not very open. And I don't like people to approach me on the street, I react very badly, but I guess that's just my temper. Sorry for this.
• I am not a star. I am an actor. I have been fighting for years to make people forget that I am just a pretty boy with a beautiful face. It's a hard fight, but I will win it. I want the public to realize that above all I am an actor, a very professional one who loves every minute of being in front of the camera. But one who becomes very miserable the instant the director shouts, 'Cut!'
• According to me, he who causes suffering to an animal is worse than a beast. He is the animal.