Olivier Quotes

But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.

I don't have goals in life.

I played a scene at the end of my first year, and that's how I was discovered.

An actor cannot say no, it’s against his job. If he wants the part he has to say yes. [But] it’s very bad for you to say you can do something and then not do it, so you have to manage to do it.

Brave is good - especially when you are a soldier.

I have an accent, I'm limited, I have to play foreign parts - I would love to play American parts but I can't because I have an accent. You are more limited as a foreigner in every area.

People who watch Transporter are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.

To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.

I'm not a fan of action movies. I don't watch many action movies, I don't have a lot of references except for 70s action movies or cinema noir.

I like thrillers. My style of movies are closer to thrillers.

I like to discover new things.

The most difficult thing to do is drama.

aken’ is a really difficult project because it was a big surprise for everybody.

What I'm doing now is having people with and around me to build what other designers built before - like Pierre Balmain with Josephine Baker, Audrey Hepburn, Dalida, Brigitte Bardot.

Kanye West is inspirational. He expresses such a strong vision beyond music, beyond fashion - it's art. He sn't afraid to push boundaries and be provocative.

I am more used to seeing my work like a big collection, and only part of it is being shown.

My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.

In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.

I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.

I would love, just once, to do costumes for a movie. I almost did some theater, but it is very different from what I am used to doing as a fashion designer.

When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.

I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.

Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.

I didn't understand the advantages of staying active until I was about 27.

What is funny is when you do a futuristic movie, you immediately get to be fashionable because you're creating something that doesn't exist.

As a designer, I'm not a guy that can be put in a niche.

I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.

When I started at [Nina] Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.

What is sure is that the satellite view of our world and its evolution is now a common reality.

When the economy changes, it's not like you want to start eating bad-tasting chocolate.

Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic

When Princess Diana got married, I was a very little kid, I think. I remember her dress, and I found the dress amazing when I was a kid.

For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.

People who don't know me sometimes call me 'Mademoiselle.'

Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.

I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.

I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.

You don't understand, photography is not about getting the right picture, it's about documenting your everyday life.

I love these words that just can't be translated from language to language. They seem dignified, grounded, battling against the imperialism of reality.

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

We need to get acquainted with mediocrity to notice greatness.

We are not defined by the things we accumulate, but by the memories we impart.

We're fragile things, Harb. It doesn't look like it but we are. We're here one minute, and just like that, we're gone. The Peacemakers (The Nemesis Engines)

[Camus] "The meaning if my works: so many men are deprived of mercy. How to live without mercy? One must try and do what Christianity never did: to take care of the damned.

[the only acting advice he would give] What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.

Studying wine taught me that there was a very big difference between soil and dirt: dirt is to soul what zombies are to humans. Soil is full of life, while dirt is devoid of it.

I know it was wonderful but I don't know how I did it.

Life is enthusiasm zest.

I take a simple view of living. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.