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Gérard Depardieu
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thumb|Gérard Depardieu in 2010
Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu (born 27 December 1948) is a French actor and film-maker.
Quotes
The stage is like a cage of light. People are no longer afraid of you - they are the ones out there in the dark, watching.
Depardieu by Marianne Gray (1991), Ch.3
Pretty little darling. I'm in great shape, I slept a lot. If you only knew the dreams I've had, I know you like the back of my hand [...] You’re going to take a nice shower and think of me.
124 kilos, and right now I'm not erect, erect is 126.I've got a beam in my pants.
Comments to his interpreter during a 2018 visit to North Korea in video footage shown in Fall of an Ogre, as cited in "Gérard Depardieu made sexual comments about 10-year-old girl, documentary shows", The Telegraph (7 December 2023)
Never, O never have I abused a woman. Hurting a woman would be like kicking my own mother's tummy.
From an open letter to Le Figaro, as cited in "Gérard Depardieu writes open letter to deny rape claims", The Times (2 October 2023)
Depardieu has been accused of sexual assault by at least 15 women.
About Depardieu
The monstre sacré (Depardieu) indulged in many things during the shoot ... Taking advantage of the privacy of a carriage. Slipping his big paw under my petticoats to supposedly get a better feel of me. Me, not letting him get to me.
Emmanuelle Debever, from her 2019 Facebook post, as cited in "Gerard Depardieu accuser dies after jumping into Seine on day of TV expose", The Telegraph (14 December 2023)
Debever's accusation relates to his alleged behaviour during production of Danton (1983). She took her own life on 7 December 2023, a few hours before an investigative documentary (Gérard Depardieu, the fall of the Ogre) was broadcast by French television.
He is the child of parents who forbade him nothing. [...] As a result he had a relationship with freedom that was almost unknown among his generation in France.
Gérard Miller, as cited in "Gérard Depardieu: the rise and fall of the Gallic god", The Times (25 February 2021)
Miller, a psychoanalyst by profession, was the producer of a film on Depardieu in 2017.
External links
Category:1948 births
Category:Living people
Category:Actors from France
Category:Businesspeople from France
Category:Best Musical or Comedy Actor Golden Globe (film) winners