American Quote by Edmund White

I would love to live in Paris and speak French. That would make me feel glamorous!

— Amanda Seyfried

My mother is from Paris, so she was quite a fashion plate. I always had that French influence at home.

— Nicole Miller

In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those…

— Mark Twain

When I moved to Europe 12 years ago, my biggest concern was whether I'd ever speak decent French. Practically every American I knew came…

— Pamela Druckerman

all the French speak French - even the children. Many Americans and Britishers who visit the country never quite adjust to this, and the…

— Olivia de Havilland

My dad's French, and I spent my summers in France growing up. So I speak French fluently, and obviously, I speak English because I…

— Timothee Chalamet

We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father…

— Joanne Harris

Accents are very sexy. American girls who speak French are very attractive to a Frenchman. Anything exotic or different is attractive.

— Gilles Marini

I always say if you're going to do a movie about Charles de Gaulle get a Frenchman, you know. I'm not French. And yeah,…

— Billy Bob Thornton

My wife's French. I mean I speak a bit of French but I've lived amongst French, you know, most of my adult life.

— Ewan McGregor

I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.

— Anonymous

For someone like me and my generation, you had to speak French to be sophisticated, you had to be lighter-skinned.

— Rabih Alameddine