Belmondo Jean Quotes & Sayings

People know that I have a great love for cinema. Not just for commercial cinema, but for the 'cinema d'auteur.' But to me, two of the great 'auteurs' are actually actors and they both happen to be French. One is Alain Delon and the other is Jean-Paul Belmondo. — Harvey Weinstein

Anyone who shows up for a midnight opening-night screening of the latest, shiniest geek flick must be a diehard nerd. I mean, you'd have to be a killer-huge fan to wait in line for hours for the newest Star Wars or Marvel Universe film, right? — Sam Maggs

Not every sky will be blue and not every day is springtime. So on the spiritual path a person learns to find this kind of happiness without needing nice things to happen on the outside. Rather, you find happiness by being who you really are. This isn't mystical. Young children are happy being who they are. The trick is to regain such a state when you are grown and have seen the light and dark sides of life. — Deepak Chopra

I may not be a pin-up, but I'm one hell of a boxer. — Jean-Paul Belmondo

This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious. — Dorothee Solle

What do we care about? What do we believe? Who do we want to be? How do we want our company to act and make decisions? — Eric Schmidt

Charm is the ability to make others forget that you look as you do. — Jean-Paul Belmondo

The appreciation of wine was based solely on the way it tasted. The invention of drinking glasses meant that the color, transparency, and clarity of wine became important, too. We are used to seeing what we drink, but this was new to the Romans, and they loved it. — Mark Miodownik

Being afraid is the worst sin there is. — Jean-Paul Belmondo

Today, I will focus on having a good relationship with myself. — Melody Beattie

Remember, you cannot be responsible for the happiness of other people. You can do your best to be sensitive to the needs and desires of others, but some people will not be happy no matter how much you do for them. If you decided you were responsible for their happiness, you could drive yourself completely up the nearest wall. — Kevin Leman

I didn't go to Hebrew school. — Amy Heckerling

Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and fought a long battle with sheer subsistence, hanging on the edge of poverty, eating clay and chasing slaves and now lurching up to manhood. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Painful feelings are, by their very nature, temporary. They will weaken over time as long as we don't prolong or amplify them through resistance or avoidance. The only way to eventually free ourselves from debilitating pain, therefore, is to be with it as it is. The only way out is through. — Kristin Neff

The first guy I really liked and was kind of obsessed with and had to seek out and find more of his films was Jean-Paul Belmondo. He was the main guy that I was obsessed with. — Simon Baker

I'm always announcing my retirement. I'm still not retired. — Dick Van Dyke

Women over thirty are at their best, but men over thirty are too old to recognize it — Jean-Paul Belmondo