But I will say that most comedians are the saddest people I know. That is the biggest paradox to me.

I'm a minimalist. I don't really need much to enjoy a good holiday - just my family and the bare essentials.

The best way to impress a woman is to be the most honest you can.

Because I was born in Casablanca and my parents were from the south of Spain, I do not have a big central root in France. I feel French but in a few ways, not at all French.

No women no kids - that's the rules.

There is no heaven on Earth. Not now anyway.

Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.

Being proud and being nationalistic are, for me, completely different things.

It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them.

I don't get the romances. I did try - a film called 'Roseanna's Grave' in the 1990s. I liked it. But the audience didn't come.

I see most of my movies at festivals.

You don't need an ocean to feel like you're drowning. You feel it, between your chest and your throat, the weight of it stretching you outside your self, like a dead fish on the shore.

Success lies not in our strength but our ability to do the right thing.

Nothing can prepare the uninitiated for New York City.

You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.

When you get a walk-off homer, you get to do whatever you want. You need to be excited about it. You don't get too many of those, so you need to enjoy them when they come.

Among a hundred windows shining dully in the vast side of greater-than-palace number such-and-such one burns these several years, each night as if the room within were aflame.

When I'm on camera, I have to do things pretty much the way I do things in everyday life. It gives the audience someone real to identify with.

Memories, you see, hurt. The good ones most of all.

Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.

Before I chose Dauntless...I felt assured of my long lifespan, if nothing else. Now there are no reassurances except that where I go, I go because I choose to.