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 find any direct statements in life. My poetry imitates or reproduces the way knowledge or awareness come to me, which is by fits and starts and by indirection. I don't think poetry arranged in neat patterns would reflect that situation. My poetry is disjunct, but then so is life.

John Ashbery

#5. The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness.

William Slim

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

Jean-Louis Trintignant

#7. I like characters with problems. I like to understand them ... To play alcoholics, fetishists, strange girls, you have to dig deep within yourself. It's 'elsewhere' that interests me.

Marie Trintignant

#8. The Indian film industry is very, very vibrant. It is a mix like it is in Hollywood - there is a lot of highly commercial cinema.

Lillete Dubey

#9. If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.

Grace Metalious

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

Jean-Louis Trintignant

#11. No' is a magical word," he told her. "Here's how it goes. You say, 'Simon, I have an insane, suicidal plan. Would you like to help me carry it out?' And I say, "Why, no.

Cassandra Clare

#12. Um, I guess."
Brilliant. Sparkling conversation.

Inara Scott

#13. Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!

Victoria Justice

#14. When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.

Fernando Torres

#15. We have so many churches these days that instead of reaching the unchurched are unchurching the churched"
~ Dr. Michael Horton

Anna Sofia Botkin

#16. We are the result of the stimulus we receive.

Alfredo Jaar

#17. You're a terrible cook, Daniel."
"I know," he replied, "But it's the effort that counts."
"I hope that's not the slogan for your dental practice.

Lisa Lutz

#18. Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt

Ray Bradbury

#19. The theatre fulfills, whereas the cinema is empty.

Marie Trintignant

#20. I see who you are. You see only who you fear you might become." - Maggie to Tadhg

Kris Kennedy

#21. I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.

Park Chan-wook

#22. Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.

Ray Charles