Simone Quotes

"I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women".

"I knew I had become a star when I shook hands with Simone Signoret at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival. She died four months later".

(on Simone Signoret) I suppose it is fair to say that I fell hopelessly in love with Simone Signoret the very first time I clapped eyes on her in a modest Ealing film called Against the Wind (1948). I placed her then on the very peak of her profession and as far as I am concerned she has never budged from it and I still love her dearly.

There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.

Simone is coming along, but we know what she can do. We`ve got to get our final roster set before we worry about June.