The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .

Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.

Love--the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world.

I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say is that the greatest hero of the Brazilian novel is the Brazilian people.

Life was good, one had only to live it.

Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.

Night was running ahead of itself.

That's the very reason why love is eternal, because it is forever renewed. Passions die, love remains.

I am like my characters - sometimes even the female ones.

Friends, we have a hero living among us.

Am I kin to Sorrow, That so oftFalls the knocker of my door—Neither loud nor soft, But as long accustomed—Under Sorrow’s hand?

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

As long as you are happy with your life, you'll have less problems.

My child was not only carried by me, but by the universe.

As an actor, sometimes you feel a pressure to change yourself from time to time.

On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents.

You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.” “I’m going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.

I’d rather look chubby on screen and like a person in real life.

A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella & takes it away as soon as it starts raining.

He's hard-core, but I think he's actually more of an actor.