It is only in our decisions that we are important.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Life begins on the other side of despair.
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
