Gad Elmaleh Quotes

Actually, I don't like dogs. I'm from Morocco, and people there don't like animals.
After New York, Chicago is my favorite city. It's just this great mix of Europe and America. The friends I have there are smart and witty and fun.
America is where standup comedy was born. It's the standard. So you want to go and do your job where this is the mecca of what you do.
Americans don't like puns and plays on words, which is totally opposite in the comedy world to France or even Italy and Germany.
Comedy in America is very serious. Either they laugh, or they don't.
Eventually I was saying to myself, maybe it would be better, instead of trying to become an American comedian in France, to mix those two styles and those two genres. Because of course it's good to be efficient and sharp, and to have a joke every twenty seconds, but it can be a little cold and dry.
Everywhere I go in America, when they learn I'm from France, the first thing they ask me is if I'm a huge Jerry Lewis fan. I've never been able to figure that out.
I did movies because I was flattered and for money and because I wanted to kiss Sophie Marceau.
I discovered that it's not really about the language. It's about how the words are pronounced and the delivery. We have plenty of good English-speaking comedians. It's O.K. if I have my accent, my gestures, my way of speaking.
I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.
I go to New York to see live shows, not movies.
I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.
I love coming to New York. I think I'm going to come really often here. I need to - for the show, for the comedy. I want to do the shows here and have a beer and hang out with the comedians.
I love the Comedy Cellar. The audience has no expectations because they don't know me. It's great. It's only winning - if I bomb, they just say, 'Oh, the French guy sucks.' But if I do well, then they remember me.
I talk about my dad and the American dream, and I just want to say to Americans how fascinated we are by America. We would love Americans to look at the rest of the world that way sometimes.
I want to talk to the audience. This is what I've been doing in my work in French forever - talking about small things becoming big problems. I notice all the details, all the tiny little things.
I was in a steak house once, and someone proposed. I was so embarrassed. The woman started crying, and I thought, 'She was just proposed to in a steak house - I'd be crying, too.'
If I were bombing with my jokes in English, I would go back to France. Maybe do that mime thing.
If you are not on TV, you don't really exist. I want to bring my comedy to the world and tell my story to a bigger audience.
In America, going on a date is really more like 'interview night.' You have to give your resume.
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