It is no longer possible to escape men. Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to pride. All that is left is men.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

We are our choices.

Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.

I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.

An accountability mind has learned to be agile, wise, courageous, resilient, and high-mature.

I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether its a man or a woman.

New Orleans in an amazing town.

Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course.

If you can't see very far aheadgo ahead as far as you can see.

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.

The denial of racism is a form of racism itself.

The Magicians Apprentice was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the balance of the whole system.

Theater in Chicago will always be my first love.