Man is free rather than man is freedom.

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'm in my 40s and I'm constantly surprised by how much my childhood still plays a part in my life.

JACKSON: When I give my word I mean that sh*t and I have no respect for anyone who breaks their word so easily.

The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.

For who can stop the heart from breaking?

The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me.

If criticism is needed, do it tactfully. Don't use a sledgehammer when a fly swatter will do the job.

At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.

It's just thinking of funny things that will amuse us and entertain us and we'll come and do it.

People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.

Height is probably 95 per cent genetic.