A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

LIfe is just a game of chance, a dance with fate if you let it be so. Or you could chose to play by your rules to win.

I played guitar from the age of four or five. Every year there would be a slightly larger triangular box under the Christmas tree, until finally I got one that was big enough to make a proper sound.

I think drugs are part of the magical possibilities of youth and I wouldn't be here if I had continued with it.

Testing two vaccines against different H1N1s at the same time has never been done.

Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.

Still, as much as I wish Ballistic Kiss could be a better film, the recognition it gained from critics and at festivals speaks for itself.

The short-cut to popularity is to lend everyone your ears, instead of giving them your tongue

I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.

I once dated a girl that was wild. She was so wild that one night she gave her phone number to the mechanical bull.