A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

We are our choices.

Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.

I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.

I needed someone to tell me that I was sane, that I was special, and that I wasn't all that special.

Never trust anyone who doesn't drink coffee.

I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.

I just don't like my voice in the studio, and I just don't like the studio, I'm not a studio-head. And that's why you don't get so much material from me.

People have to know that they can count on you, that you won't say one thing one day and something totally different the next.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

I get a lot of unasked for sexual confessions.

I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics.

What I don't understand is what America really wants.

I am recognized a lot for Clueless, but I am recognized a great deal for The Princess Bride. I dont know... maybe everybody who has seen that movie just goes out on the street.