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. Gad Elmaleh Read Quote
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. Gad Elmaleh Read Quote
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. Gad Elmaleh Read Quote
I don’t feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor. Gad Elmaleh Read Quote
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. Gad Elmaleh Read Quote
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. Gad Elmaleh Read Quote
It’s liberating to perform in another language. There are some subjects I would never talk about in French, where they see me as a public figure, that I talk about in English. Gad Elmaleh Read Quote
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. Gad Elmaleh Read Quote
