Acting makes you live plenty of lives.

I love life. I love life to death.

I've never wanted to be a star, never.

If by chance people would still offer me roles, I'd still like to do them. But if not, that's OK.

In acting, you draw so much on your private life.

It is dreadful to see actors reproducing the same image constantly.

Love is the essence of life; love touches all of our work. Love never leaves us. It clings to us, and we cling to it.

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.