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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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.
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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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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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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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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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From caring comes courage.
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Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, 'Hey, I did my religious duty.' That's fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you're talking to God. Even if it's in your thoughts.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.
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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.
