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I am very good at three things: my job, foolishness and children,
he said in a 1995 L’Express interview You’ll never see me old and ugly, ... because I’ll leave before, or I’ll die.”
he said when he was already nearing 70, Alain Delon has played legendary roles and made the world dream,
It’s a page being turned in the history of French cinema,
he told France Inter radio Goodbye friend. A wonderful collection of films, an incredible and fascinating personality. Beauty is not enough to explain the exceptional evolution of his talent. He was the ultimate star. The Samurai.”
Following news of his death, French writer and film director Philippe Labro wrote We believe he was immortal … his talent, his charisma, his aura made him destined for a Hollywood career at a young age, but he chose France.”
The country’s culture minister Rachida Dati wrote Alain is in a deep, chosen solitude, in another world, in the past with people he very much loved,
his former partner Darc told AFP in 2015. He's not a normal actor, Alain Delon. He's an object of desire,
said actor Vincent Lindon in a 2012 documentary The best and the worst, both inaccessible and so close, cold and hot,
fellow 1960s star Brigitte Bardot had described him on his 80th birthday I am going to leave, but I won't leave without thanking you,
added the man who had lived out his final years at his home in a village in northeast France, surrounded by high walls, where he planned to be buried not far from his dogs You don't have to agree with me. But if there's one thing in this world that I'm sure of, that I'm really proud of - one thing - it's my career."
Addressing the audience at the ceremony, Delon proclaimed I never harassed a woman in my life. They, however, harassed me a lot."
Responding to the allegations of misogyny, he asserted Money, commerce and television have wrecked the dream machine,
he wrote in a 2003 edition of newsweekly Le Nouvel Observateur I like to be loved the way I love myself!
Delon's confidence was palpable in his statement to Femme in 1996 Alain Fabien, Anouchka, Anthony, as well as (his dog) Loubo, are deeply saddened to announce the passing of their father. He passed away peacefully in his home in Douchy, surrounded by his three children and his family,
the statement said, adding the family Most of them the gangsters I know ... were my friends before I became an actor,
I was programmed for success, not happiness. The two don't go together,
said Delon, who claimed to have always defined himself through women You can look at photos of him for hours and hours,
Wistful, popular, secretive, he was more than a star: a French monument.”
Hours later, President Emmanuel Macron honored him in a post on social media, saying