Dean Martin

You don't become a singer and actor by chance. We are because we want the whole world to listen to you and look at you and we don't really dare to say it to their face. You don't become Dean Martin by chance. And above all, Dino did more than become a brilliant entertainer, a major actor or a singer with an extremely smooth voice, he instantly became a legend. It's not me who invents it, but it's Jean-Luc Godard who makes Michel Piccoli say it in Le Mépris who explains why he wears a hat in his bath: "it's to make like Dean Martin in Some Came Running .

Dino was America, but not just any America, that of style, in all circumstances and despite everything.

Joseph Ghosn