I call Iran home because no matter how long I live in France, and despite the fact that I feel also French after all these years, to me the word 'home' has only one meaning: Iran. I suppose it's that way for everyone: Home is the place where one is born and raised.

You hear people saying, 'Oh I'm so tired, I've had enough of Cannes.' How can you have enough of Cannes? It's just the best place to be, like a fairytale.

When you say 'revolution' when you have only men outside, you know that something is going wrong. I'm not like a hardcore feminist, but I think that one of the things that makes the society advanced is equality between men and women. If half of the society is oppressed by the other half, it's not fine.

I'm a very individualistic person. That is why I don't belong to any political party or anything. I really believe in justice and freedom.

There's no way I would have thought I would have had the career that I did and the longevity. Absolutely no idea.

We can't be empowered women in our career and strong women in our relationships if it weren't for the fact that we're healthy.

I think that there was a period of time - and I would reckon it was about 12 years - where I was just determined to see if I could build a career for myself.

As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.