Gérard Depardieu

Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu (born 27 December 1948) is a French actor and film-maker.

Gérard Depardieu in 2010

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.