Trintignant Jean Louis Quotes & Sayings

A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances. — George S. Patton

When I made 'Terminator 3,' I learned something about directing actors to behave like robots. And one of the key things I learned is that if an actor tries to play a robot, he or she risks playing it mechanically in a way that makes the performance uninteresting. — Jonathan Mostow

Worried about dry skin? Concerned about lines and wrinkles? Then visit a burns unit and get some perspective. — Shaun Micallef

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

Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.
There's nothing situate under heaven's eye
But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky. — William Shakespeare

Ours is a divine journey; therefore, this journey has neither a beginning nor an end ... This journey has a goal, but it does not stop at any goal, for it has come to realise that today's goal is only the starting point of tomorrow's journey. — Sri Chinmoy

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

One has to seek Beauty and Truth, Sir! As I always say to my pupils, you have to work to the finish. There's only one kind of painting. It is the painting that presents the eye with perfection, the kind of beautiful and impeccable enamel you find in Veronese and Titian. — William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Speak, or I will put a dint in your hat that even a wizard will find hard to deal with! — J.R.R. Tolkien

It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities. — Rebecca Latimer Felton

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

I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one — Stephen King

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