The Quotable French Kiss: Starring Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline

French Kiss, starring Kevin Kline and Meg Ryan, is one of the many romantic comedies that Meg Ryan is known for. It's about a woman (Kate, played by Ryan) whose fiance goes to France on business and falls in love, and her ensuing adventure to attempt to get him back. You may not even recognize Kevin Kline at first - he plays a Frenchman (Luc)! Here are some of the best quotes from French Kiss.

"I hate Paris in the springtime/I hate Paris in the fall/I hate Paris in the summer when it sizzles/I hate Paris in the winter when it drizzles/I hate Paris, oh why oh why do I hate Paris?/Because my love is there... with his SLUT girlfriend." In the beginning of the movie, Kate is trying to get over a fear of flying. The original version of this song was her mantra - this is the new and improved fiance-inspired version of the song. She sings it to herself when she's boarded the plane to go to France after her fiance.

(Luc)"I'm curious how you got around your whole life, or do you just stay in your house with the doors locked?" (Kate) "I get around as nature intended: in a car" Luc has taken the seat beside kate, and notes how afraid she is of flying. He begins to tease her about it, with things like, "I like you. But I don't like the way you say with your face all scrunched up, "you're French, aren't you?" And then I don't like how you say, with your eyes all squinty, "all men are bastards."" Before they know it they're off the ground.

Things don't go so well for Kate though, and she ends up penniless, passportless, and friendless in Paris. Hr bag is stolen once she's parted ways with Luc, and it turns out Luc knows the theif! When she finds out, she tells him, "Of course you know him. All you bastards know each other!"

All in all, this movie ends up being a great one romantically because although Luc has this shell that he doesn't let the world into, on the inside he has some experience with love. He asks Kate about her fiance, "Why are you chasing after him after what he's done to you?" Says Kate, "Because I love him! And I'm afraid that if he doesn't come back that I'll... it'll hurt so much that I'll just shrivel up and I'll never be able to love anyone ever again." I don't know any woman who's never felt that way once. But Luc's next words should be a life lesson for anyone: "You say that now, but... after a time, you would forget. First, you would forget his chin, and then his nose, and after a while, you would struggle to remember the exact color of his eyes, and one day you wake up and, pfft, he's gone: his voice, his smell, his face. He will have left you. And then you can begin again." And that's what we all have to do from time to time.

French Kiss was released in 1995, and was Meg Ryan's first film as Producer. It was directed by Lawrence Kasdan.