Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
Life has no meaning a priori … It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
Quotes to Explore
-
My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
-
I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
-
My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.
-
I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
-
I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
-
My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
-
I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
-
Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
-
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
-
We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
-
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
-
The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
-
You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
-
In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
-
I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.
-
I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
-
I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.
-
There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
-
In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.
-
The Mediterranean is in my DNA. I'm fine inland for about a week, but then I yearn for a limitless view of the sea, for the colours and smells of the Italian and French Riviera.
-
As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.
-
When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.
-
For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.
-
Life has no meaning a priori … It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
