When they don’t know you, when you don’t have credits and they’re thinking, ‘I don’t know this French guy,’ your first five minutes are trying to seduce them, trying to get them on your side. And it’s not easy.

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I’m not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.