Marcel Proust Quotes
We construct our lives for one person, and when at length it is ready to receive her that person does not come; presently she is dead to us, and we live on, prisoners within the walls which were intended only for her.
Quotes to Explore
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I like to discover new things.
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I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.
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I lived on nothing for years - squatted where I lived and where I worked, stole electricity, made things from stuff I found in skips, used paper that had been discarded - you do everything you can do to keep going and not have to get a job.
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I think the physical comedy in action sequences is fantastic. Like, '21 Jump Street' did a great job with that.
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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.
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Action is the real measure of intelligence.
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I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.
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My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.
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I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
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Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
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I stay subjective because that's what I do. That's one of my abilities. I don't need to watch it because I've had the adventure. I don't do low-budget acting. I do the same acting, whether I'm in a Jim Cameron or not. I always try to do good work. There's no snobbery in there.
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I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.
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Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.
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He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression...
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Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish to pay a proper respect to the dead, unless their characters have been bad, and as I would wish to have the funeral of my own near relations or of myself well attended.
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The richest hearts are those that have given love and received love in return.
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I must be dead for there is nothing but blue snow and the furious silence of a gunshot.
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We construct our lives for one person, and when at length it is ready to receive her that person does not come; presently she is dead to us, and we live on, prisoners within the walls which were intended only for her.
