You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.

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.

God is my happy place

In a victory speech, I always like to thank the opposition, because without their help and stupidity, I couldn’t have won.

Different is good. When someone tells you that you are different, smile and hold your head up and be proud.

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also.

He that praiseth himselfe spattereth himselfe. [He that praiseth himself spatteteth himself.]

You have to believe in what you are saying. Maybe they will like it or not but they cannot contest that what you are saying is true.

Sometimes it's tough because I've got to sleep 15 hours to sing the way I want to. It's not easy because my vocal chords are different than most people's.

I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.

An armed society is a polite society.

My movies are not about being, but becoming.