Gad Elmaleh Quotations

Actually, I don't like dogs. I'm from Morocco, and people there don't like animals.

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it; merci.' But I'm not interested in that.

My name, my origins, my background and my experiences are what leveraged my success. The angle of the immigrant, through which I examined the reality in France, distinguished me.

Comedy in America is very serious. Either they laugh, or they don't.

I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.

I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.

Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex - not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.

I go to New York to see live shows, not movies.

Morocco is completely alive for me because I spent about a third of my life there. The first few times I went back to Casablanca, I walked through the streets and remembered how years earlier I had walked those same streets and prayed that a miracle would happen and I would leave and become famous.

My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view.