Jean-Louis Trintignant Quotes
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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My message is not just to disabled people, but to everyone: You have to work hard.
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'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.
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In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development.
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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
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As an actor, the ambition is to play interesting characters. And in the indie genre world, the budgets are low. That allows me, as an actor, not to have a financial value behind my name, to justify me being in these bigger parts for these types of movies.
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
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An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
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My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we're living in, I put my faith in those people.
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I think sometimes celebrities can hurt a candidate. You don't want people to judge them on your last project.
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Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.
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There is nothing erratic about my nature. It’s just that the way you would react, I would react the same way. It’s just that people in limelight, under the media spotlight, would not react that way. They would go back home and plan their reaction. That would be a more dangerous reaction. With me, it’s just there, and I forgive and forget very easily.
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Respecting others' opinions doesn't mean being untrue to our own.
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The sky is still the limit and trees still grow and the seasons come and go and all of the beautiful things we've got around us, they're still here.
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The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.
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I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life.
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As much as I moved to New York and tried to work in theater as much as I could - I developed a relationship with Circle Rep - make no mistake about it, I really, really wanted to be in a film. It seemed like almost everyone I knew at least did something in a movie, except me.
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It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not.
