I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up.

People pretend to be nice, people pretend to be smooth, and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance, because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.

Perfection is not just about control, it is also about letting go.

Good guys need to be a little dirty otherwise they're just boring.

The only person standing in your way is you.

You can't escape from what you are.

I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.

I'm more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don't know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves.

People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.

I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.

We're making more and more decisions every day. I think a lot of us feel overloaded by the process.

I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete idiot at this time.

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what power it has over my mind, while the opposite course has a tendency to harrow up all the harsh feelings and depress the human mind.

Things not worth doing are not worth doing well.

In the coming elections if you cannot decide whom to select, use the vote to reject.

The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.

We all die, just a question of when.

Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?

A simple separate person is not contained between his hat and his boots.