Nulle cre ature humaine ne peut commander a' l'amour. No human being can give orders to love.

Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le complique . Truth is too simple; it must always be arrived at in a complicated manner.

En France particulie' rement, les mots ont plus d'empire que les ide es. In France particularly, words reign over ideas.

L'homme qui a un peu use ses e motions est plus presse de plaire que d'aimer. The person who has used his emotions even a little is more anxious to please than to love.

La socie te ne doit rien exiger de celui qui n'attend rien d'elle. Society should not ask anything of the person who expects nothing from society.

Nous ne pouvons arracher une seule page de notre vie, mais nous pouvons jeter le livre au feu. We cannot tear out a single page from our life, but we can throw the entire book in the fire.

Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.

Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.

...there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again.

Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.

When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they can only take it away.

I am passionate about a few things, of course acting, films/TV and improving the lives of youth in urban communities.

The last thing I'd learn, well into my career, was how to get on, how to say hello, how to get in with the audience.

...All my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call, and the remainder are cripples.

All I'm really concerned with is doing my thing.