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It`s true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it`s a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations; to a Frenchman, sex provides the most economical way to have fun. The French are a logical race.

- Anita Loos

I`m not preaching a sermon from the mount, you know. This is just my own opinion. But it does seem to me that when our industry got vulgar and cheap, we began losing our regular customers. Sure, people are curious, and they`ll go see any provocative thing once - maybe even four or five times - but eventually they`ll just stay home and watch television. There used to be this little Frenchman in Hollywood who made all these risqué movies . . . what the hell was his name? . . . Lubitsch (Ernst Lubitsch, who was actually German)! He could make pictures as risqué as anything you`ll see today, but he made them with taste and illusion. The only sadness in my heart for our business is that we are taking all the illusion out of it. After all, it`s pretty hard to take your daughter to see Deep Throat (1972).

- John Wayne

It made me the hero of the whole of France. To head-butt a cop is the dream of every Frenchman.

- Omar Sharif

France is fairly egalitarian '” for Frenchmen. You have to be a Frenchman, or become one.

- Robert Levine

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.

- Aislinn Ryan

Or a White Englishman would rather smash a White Frenchman than a Jew! Crazy!

- Andrew Garrett