Trintignant Quotes & Sayings

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

The worst is still ahead of us. But no one in Washington has the spine to tell you that. — Glenn Beck

Thither he bent his way, determined there
to rest at noon; and entered soon the shade
high roofed, and walks beneath, and alleys brown,
That opened in the midst a woody scene;
Nature's own work it seemed, Nature-taught Art — John Milton

When you're an actor, actually, you shouldn't come up with too many ideas. — Jean-Louis Trintignant

It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not. — Jean-Louis Trintignant

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose. — John Stossel

A house is such a strange thing. Everything else gets more worn when people handle it, and sometimes you can feel a person's poison if you get too close to him, but that's not what happens to a house. Even a good house falls apart quickly when nobody stops by. A house is alive only when there are people living in it, brushing against it, staying in it. — Kyung-Sook Shin

I adore Jean-Louis Trintignant - even at 100 years old he's fabulous. — Manolo Blahnik

[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

The theatre fulfills, whereas the cinema is empty. — Marie Trintignant

That lovely things exist is a lovely thought. — Robert Walser

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