A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

The object of art is to give life a shape.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

The object of art is to give life shape.

You are only Half Happy unless you love them both equally: Friday & Monday!

Growing up she'd heard rumors about the enforcer and how badass he was...

I think we should all be pursuing something of zero regrets, and how do we become greater than we were yesterday.

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

You should not do this, Comrade. We are only in the introductory stage yet, here in Western Europe. And in that stage it is better to encourage the fighters than the rulers.

“It is not everyone,” said Elinor, “who has your passion for dead leaves.”

I am trying to be as impartial as possible. As you can tell from the trailers for Mad Men, I am a person who believes that you should know nothing.

One of the things that I do like about filmmaking is that you find out how to solve new problems.

You probably would not choose to dine at a restaurant whose chef always ate elsewhere. I do eat my own cooking, and I don't "dine out" when it comes to investing.