I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence

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.

The achievement of dreams demands 100 percent dedication.

No one will recognize you unless you had done a thing.

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

It's very scary to allow the world to see you.

May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.

I have some favorites. I love Chaplin; I mean I really love Chaplin. I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.

A lover of Jesus and of the truth can lift himself above himself in spirit.

I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.