Jean Louis Barrault Quotes

#1. Why do we invent the monster as a metaphor? Surely all we need do is witness our own cruelty to each other to see the real face of evil.

Mark T. Barnes

#2. The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#3. The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.

Gore Vidal

#4. A classic is like a hidden treasure. Its core is buried under so many layers of varnish that it can be reached only by patience and infiltration.

Jean-Louis Barrault

#5. When I wake up in the morning I want to feel hungry for life. Desire is what drives me. When I go to sleep, I feel I have experienced a small death, so that I can wake up in the morning renewed and reborn.

Jean-Louis Barrault

#6. By encouraging renewable energy sources such as wind energy, we boost South Dakota's economy and we help reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.

Tim Johnson

#7. The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his character.

Jean-Louis Barrault

#8. Acting is the ability to keep an audience from coughing.

Jean-Louis Barrault

#9. Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear.

Margery Allingham

#10. Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#11. You have to wake up a virgin each morning.

Jean-Louis Barrault

#12. I know you don't know. I know what you know, and I know what you don't know. I even know what you don't know that you don't know.

Orson Scott Card