My father is best known for his light comedies, and Im best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.

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.

If only I could rest for a time in quiet pain and awaken new and willing. He is looking forward and I am inward.

Corporate irony

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.

Certain people have the eye of the tiger, and I never was myself that kind of person, although I'm not a slacker.

I love stories with a happy ending,” Inspector Me said.

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

I'm sitting on top of the world, and I've got hemorrhoids.

Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.

At a bare minimum, understanding entails being able to detect an internal contradiction: a paradox.