The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.

He imitated me so well that I couldn't stand myself any longer.

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.

My fate is to be President of the Republic - or leader of the opposition.

When I first arrived at the Matignon, my desire was to reconcile Parliament and De Gaulle. I had forgotten only two things. Parliament and De Gaulle.

The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

I like to knuckle down and get on with my job. I'll make mistakes, I'm bound to, but I'll write them down and I'll learn from them.

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

Because its not a lie if its how you feel.

I mean, I'm not going to play the hero of something.

I don't understand the word 'hunk.'

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later - yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

There must be love and understanding to betray. Most men havent the wit or the honor for betrayal not to know it when they see it not the stomach to apprehend it as they do it. Most men blind and dumb in their self centeredness dont betray they merely disappoint.

Forced labor affects the most vulnerable and least protected people, perpetuating a vicious cycle of poverty and dependency. Women, low-skilled migrant workers, children, indigenous peoples, and other groups suffering discrimination on different grounds are disproportionately affected.

You can write anything you want on paper, like blowing up the bridge on the River Kwai, but when you actually have to do that as a director, it's not the same. Ninety percent of directing is not creative - it's putting the theoretical into the practical world.

Products are a must - full stop. I'm sorry to say it, but that bob won't look so sleek on its own - you need a little help. It doesn't have to be the high-end stuff that they sell in the salon. Products you find in the supermarket are just as good, and sometimes better.

Volunteering has been undervalued in Britain for a long time. Often it has been seen as a kind of cut-price, amateur version of work that would be better done by the state. When politicians speak about it, people hear in the background the sound of budgets being cut.

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.

Speaking for myself, I spend a good ten minutes a day deciding whether or not to read the results of new surveys, and, once I have read them, a further five minutes deciding whether or not to take them seriously.

Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions.

I did a lot of modeling in the U.K. A lot of it wasn't high fashion because I don't have the body or the face for high fashion modeling. I did a lot of sportswear, swimwear, and beachwear.

The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior.

I hate plots.

I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.

To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.

I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.

My method is to find a word with a gesture.