Jean-Paul Belmondo Quotes
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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I'm not just a normal guy. I'm a gymnast.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.
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My refrigerator is full of kale and greens. I can't imagine something greasy, or eating meat.
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There are no second acts in American lives.
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I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.
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Don't come to wild shows if you're just going to talk to your friend about whose shoes you're wearing.
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I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.
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You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
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So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.
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I don't think you can force a moral opinion or you can force something through a Bollywood film.
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You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.
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I am not a hero, O.K.? I am not a hero. I am a very ordinary person.
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I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.
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I think I've developed into an actress because I've worked darn hard at it and I've learned a great deal from a lot of gifted people. And if I have nothing else to show for my life, apart from a scrapbook full of cuttings, I have the knowledge that my early days in Hollywood weren't in vain.
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There are two kinds of games in economics. One is the game where people use only legal moves. Then there is the true game, the one like real life, where the strategies and moves people make, some of them contain illegal gains.
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I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got a lock on a personality, even just in life, and then they'll shock you by their behavior.
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I thought his performance was absolutely wonderful and had said so, but he seemed, as actors quite often are when they first see something, to be disappointed. I think he expected more from the film and himself.
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I dress in a sophisticated and classy way - I always dress in a way I know my mother wouldn't be embarrassed to see.
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I've always liked to keep trim, and fortunately, I don't put on weight easily.
