Jean Louis Trintignant Quotes

#1. [on why he considers Marlon Brando and Jean-Louis Trintignant to be his favorite actors] They don't externalize or project everything. They keep a mystery within themselves, and that I think is the sign of a truly great actor, to be able to maintain that.

Michael Haneke

#2. I adore Jean-Louis Trintignant - even at 100 years old he's fabulous.

Manolo Blahnik

#3. No, I like today's cinema a lot. But I've spent so many decades only making movies. There's so much that I still want to do. Like, live. It's only up to me.

Jean-Louis Trintignant

#4. I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

Jimmy Carter

#5. I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue ... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.

Francois Rabelais

#6. It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not.

Jean-Louis Trintignant

#7. Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.

C. G. Jung

#8. It has become a custom among the Legions to promise one's fellows that no matter what happens, they will never lie cold upon the earth.

Jim Butcher

#9. I do not belive that Washington should do for the people wha they can do for themselves through local and private effort.

John F. Kennedy

#10. When you're an actor, actually, you shouldn't come up with too many ideas.

Jean-Louis Trintignant

#11. As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer.

James Hilton

#12. Isn't that wonderful? When we drove through several of the places we lived - Grand Rapids, Washington - they all had those placards. That they stood by the street and had in their hands placards that said 'Gerald Our Ford'. That meant so much to us as we were driving into Washington.

Betty Ford

#13. What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn't imagine it if it weren't real somewhere, sometime.

Terence McKenna

#14. A good school provides a rounded education for the whole person. And a good Catholic school, over and above this, should help all its students to become saints.

Pope Benedict XVI

#15. I don't flinch from darkness, but I've always been bothered by what I call gore-nography.

Benjamin Percy

#16. Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

Ted Turner

#17. Life had gone on. It always did. that's what you learned as you got older. Time. It kept moving. You wished you could change. They were gone. They left you in a snap.

Lee Martin

#18. You must be much WITH God before you can be much FOR God.

Leonard Ravenhill

#19. All of these concrete metaphors increase enormously our powers of perception of the world about us and our understanding of it, and literally create new objects. Indeed, language is an organ of perception, not simply a means of communication.

Julian Jaynes