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Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.

Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.

I didn't study; I live.

I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood.

I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.

I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win.

I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.

I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.

I try to find different ways of expressing myself. Without that I will die.

I'm proud of what I achieved there, but a life built on memories is not much of a life.

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.

It is enjoyable to make things visible which are invisible.

My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.

Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play football, they no longer do anything; they no longer exist, or rather they have the sensation of no longer existing.

On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.

Sometimes in life one experiences an emotion which is so strong that it is difficult to think, or to reason.

Sometimes you get submerged by emotion. I think it's very important to express it - which doesn't necessarily mean hitting someone.

The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on.

We knew that you don't get to be world champions without a struggle.

We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult because it's tough to do better than winning a world title.

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance.

Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.

I don't take life so seriously... I can just play with life.

Football lost its excitement for me.

I live to feel myself in danger.

In England, your life is your life.

You need a particular talent only to want to please. I don't have this talent.

When times are difficult, I tell myself, 'I'm just passing through.'

Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity.

He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

I know that I have a face, a look, people aren't used to seeing. A presence.

I don't need to be involved with a game watched by millions of people to be fulfilled.

I don't care about the past.

I want to look forward.

I don't know where my medals are.

You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.

I always planned to retire when I was at the top and at Manchester United I have reached the pinnacle of my career.

Manchester United is stronger than anybody in the world.

It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.

The French have only negative things to say about everything and everyone.

The revolution is really easy to do nowadays.

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

I like to stay at home and make cinema in my head.

I don't want to go to Hollywood.

For me, I don't like it when there is too much interference in our lives. We're not children. It is our own life in our hands.

If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important.

We can be eaten by techniques and forget what we have inside of us.

I try to be honest.

When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.

I have great memories.

I apologize for nothing.

Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.

I always wanted to play against the best.

I think life is a big game we play.

What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through the banks.

I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.

I'm just enjoying my life at the moment.

I found leaving Manchester United very, very hard.

You retire, but you're still aching to play. But in order to play, you have to resist certain temptations, and train hard. And I just didn't have the desire to do that any more.

I always knew I had to work hard.

The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.

I'm never bored.

Every experience makes you a man.

I think I have a sense of mischief and that I can laugh at myself.

We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.

We all have common frailties but we need to treasure friends more.

My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona.

I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.

I have to wear clothes but I don't like to give an idea of what I am with clothes.

I have a car but it's not important.

Being French, to me, is first and foremost being a revolutionary.

My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.

Some films I say no to and they end up working very well, but I don't care, I just want to do something exciting.

I'm lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do.

Being on stage isn't so tough compared to the football pitch.

I observe the world and the people surrounding me.

A home is crucial, the foundation of a stable family.

It is unacceptable that people often have to make huge sacrifices just to find a place to live, a roof over their heads.

I didn't want really to be involved in a normal soccer club.

I think it's better to be involved in one or two movies a year.

Desire is important.

Great businessmen are creators.

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