Simone Veil's Quotes

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.

Pain is the root of knowledge.

Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.

I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing.

If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.

Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.

Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.

I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.

I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.

I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.

I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.

It takes one person to give you a big chance.

OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!

So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.

Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.

There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that.

You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.