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
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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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.
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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.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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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.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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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.
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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.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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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.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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My family believes in a good script and ultimately everything that is attached to it. I am more interested in a hit film than a good film.
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I play piano very badly. That's my great regret.
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I wanted to be the Great Liberating Teacher, to raise them from their knees after days of drudgery in office and factories, to help them cast off their shackles, to lead them to the mountaintop, to breathe the air of freedom. Once their minds were clear of cant, they’d see me as a savior.
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That was probably the highlight of my career. I learned more from him my first few years than probably I have from any individual through my career.
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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.
