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Quotes by French Authors
"The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion."
"The more sincere I could be, the better it would be for the film."
"At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone."
"For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived."
"I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at Rada."
"One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future."
"Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words."
"The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets."
"When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart."
"Tyranny is always better organized than freedom."
"I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins."
"I have had occasion to meet with, in convents for instance, literally saintly examples of practical charity, they have generally had the brisk, decided, undisturbed and slightly brutal air of a busy surgeon, the face in which one can discern no commiseration, no tenderness at the sight of suffering humanity, and no fear of hurting it, the face devoid of gentleness or sympathy, the sublime face of true goodness."
"Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock."
"I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot."
"You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time."
"Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third."
"The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers."
"And, I think, as a kid, I had a strong motivation to do something of my life. And, I think that's the strongest motivation I really got. And, that came obviously from my parents and my grandparents."
"At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets."
"It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends."
"Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange."
"Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished."
"I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big."
"The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time."
"The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one."
"In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them."
"The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry."
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