I first decided to become an actor at school. A teacher gave us a play to do and that had a major impact. At first, I wanted to work in the theatre, but there was something about the ambience of film, especially American films, that always attracted me.


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A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy because the p...
JEAN KERR
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
JEAN PAUL
That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in...
WYCLEF JEAN
Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
JEAN TOOMER
Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
WYCLEF JEAN
The look of a king is itself a deed.
JEAN PAUL
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
JEAN COCTEAU
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You m...
JEAN KERR
I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under thei...
JEAN ROSTAND
Unlike other loans, a reverse mortgage doesn't have to be repaid until the borrower moves out of...
JEAN CHATZKY
A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit ...
JEAN LUSH
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
JEAN ROSTAND
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than...
JEAN ROSTAND
It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, wit...
JEAN ROSTAND
It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
JEAN ROSTAND
A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to cre...
JEAN ROSTAND
The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons.
JEAN RENOIR
To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
JEAN ROSTAND
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
She said, "As long as we're with each other--"
"We know we're in exactly the right place," he f...
JEAN FERRIS
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
JEAN ROSTAND
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, an...
JEAN ROSTAND
She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimm...
JEAN RHYS
In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
JEAN ROSTAND
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
JEAN ROSTAND
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
JEAN ROSTAND
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the...
JEAN KERR
Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understa...
JEAN ROSTAND
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains...
JEAN ROSTAND
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
JEAN ROSTAND
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
JEAN ROSTAND
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains t...
JEAN ROSTAND
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
JEAN ROSTAND
God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
JEAN ROSTAND
God, that checkroom of our dreams.
JEAN ROSTAND
I'm starting to believe that happily ever after includes people doing things that upset each other. ...
JEAN FERRIS
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of d...
JEAN PIAGET
The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of ...
JEAN PIAGET
You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich pe...
JEAN KERR
Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.
JEAN PAUL
The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
JEAN ROSTAND
The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after dange...
JEAN PAUL