I take time to get close to, and I don’t immediately throw my arms round someone.

I feel like fame is wasted on me.

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

It’s true that I am not from the south and I have a certain reserve. I take time to get close to, and I don’t immediately throw my arms round someone. But it is more a question of style.

It’s wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn’t all about me.

There are actors who can pull of a writer’s lines; I am not competent enough to do that.

There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.