Michel Bouquet(1925-2022)

He can't swim, never practiced any sport and doesn't have a driving licence. On the set of Stéphane - Una moglie infedele (1969), director Claude Chabrol insisted that he'd learn to drive for a few scenes. After a two months driving course, Bouquet almost ran over the movie's camera operator, future writer/director Claude Zidi, while shooting the scene where his character, Charles, has to park his car near a drugstore. After the accident, he immediately decided to give up any attempt to learn driving.

[on acting] This is a very lonely job, just like painting. One does it in public, but the essence of it is secret.