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108 La connaissance de l'homme est la base de tout succés. fr 1
85 Ajouter des paroles à l'un de mes films reviendrait à ajouter de la peinture à une statue. fr 1
86 Avec cette canne je défie le destin et l'adversité. fr 1
100 J'ai été l'homme sur lequel on a écrit le plus de choses avec le moins de justesse. fr 1
152 J'ai l'impression que les humains sont en train de perdre le don du rire. ( Waterville en 1964). fr 1
114 Je ne suis pas communiste, je suis un être humain, (...) Les communistes ne sont différents de personne: s'ils perdent un bras ou une jambe, ils souffrent comme nous tous, (...) Je n'ai pas besoin d'être communiste pour savoir cela.(1942) fr 1
49 Je veux voir tout le monde logé et nourri: c'est là toute l'étendue de mes opinions politiques. fr 1
25 La valeur qui m'importe le plus est la dignité humaine. fr 1
89 Le rire Esperanto (dixit Jean Cocteau) fr 1
139 Les chemins de la gloire ne conduisent qu'à la tombe. fr 1
17 Les choses passent, s'usent comme une marche d'escalier qui devient lisse parce que les gens marchent dessus. fr 1
104 Me représenter ce qu'attend le public de moi et faire autrement, c'est un pur plaisir pour moi. fr 1
52 Nous devenons les victimes du conditionnement des âmes, des sanctions et des permissions fr 1
15 Tout ce qui vit appelle la discussion. fr 1
76 Un artiste devrait seulement être jugé par son art. fr 1
34 To be out on a night like this you must be an optimist en 1
43 A man is what a woman makes him and a woman makes herself. en 1
135 A man's true character comes out when he's drunk. en 1
109 Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference. en 1
132 Doing something with the public in mind is doing something without your own mind. en 1
35 Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied. en 1
125 Humor is the ability to discern in a kindly way the folly in what is considered normal, sublime behavior, and to discern the discrepancy in what appears as a truth. en 1
122 Humor is the sublime wisdom of pity and tolerance in which man recognizes the utter futility of his own enterprise and importance. en 1
87 I am but one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a higher plane than any politician. en 1
110 I do not wish to lose my temper because very shortly I will lose my head. Nevertheless, upon leaving this spark of earthly existence, I have this to say: I shall see you all very soon ... very soon. (Mr Verdoux) en 1
94 I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career. en 1
37 I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President. en 1
41 I have yet to find a poor man who has nostalgia for poverty en 1
24 If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance. en 1
16 Imagination means nothing without doing. en 1
2 In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs en 1
7 Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough. en 1
10 Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone. en 1
12 Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jelly fish. en 1
11 Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. en 1
53 One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify, my good fellow. Mr Verdoux en 1
63 Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing. en 1
54 Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve. en 1
106 The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting en 1
44 The public never knows what it wants, only what it doesn't want. en 1
142 The roses you lifted to your lips ... lucky roses! en 1
129 They walked out on me. They haven't done that since I was a beginner. The cycle's complete. en 1
18 This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it. en 1
13 To live in order to reason or reason in order to live; there is the question. en 1
33 We might as well die as to go on living like this. en 1
9 What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning! en 1
112 "C'est plutôt dictatorial de me dire de quelle manière je devrais appliquer mon patriotisme. Je suis patriote, j'ai été patriote de la même manière et je l'ai montré. (...) J'ai voyagé à travers le monde, et mon patriotisme n'es fr 0
91 "Ce personnage a plusieurs facettes; c'est en même temps un vagabond, un gentleman, un poète, un rêveur, un type esseulé, toujours épris de romanesque et d'aventure. Il voudrait vous faire croire qu'il est un savant, un musicien, un duc, un fr 0
151 C'est à présent qu'il faut montrer ce que vous valez, c'est à présent qu'il faut lutter. fr 0
88 Ce n'est pas la réalité qui compte dans un film, mais ce que l'imagination peut en faire. fr 0
70 Ce qui dépasse notre entendement est un simple fait dans d'autres dimensions. fr 0
115 Ce qui peut etre imaginé approche autant de la vérité que ce qui peut être prouvé mathématiquement fr 0
153 Dans la douceur de la nuit, je commençais à comprendre l'Amérique. fr 0
61 Etre joyeux, c'est ma façon de résoudre les problèmes de la vie. fr 0
133 J'ai foi dans l'inconnu, dans tout ce que nous ne comprenons pas par la raison. fr 0
102 Je compris alors ce qu'était le bonheur parfait: quelque chose de très proche de la tristesse. fr 0
48 Je crois au pouvoir du rire et des larmes comme contrepoisons de la haine et de la terreur. fr 0
103 Je donne six mois au parlant. Au maximum une année. Après, ce sera terminé. fr 0
105 Je ferai les films que j'aime parce que si j'aime quelque chose, il y a de fortes chances pour que les enfants l'aiment aussi. fr 0
50 Je suis un internationaliste, pas un nationaliste, et je ne changerai pas de nationalité fr 0
68 Je suis un non-conformiste. fr 0
58 Je suis un pantin sentimental. fr 0
69 Je suis un romantique incorrigible. fr 0
117 La beauté est une omniprésence de la mort et du charme, une tristesse souriante qu'on discerne dans la nature. fr 0
140 La vie continue!... L'Homme ne doit pas renoncer! fr 0
145 Le coeur et l'esprit, quelle énigme. The heart and the mind ... what an enigma. Calvero - Limelight fr 0
128 Le rire est bien prés des larmes et réciproquement. fr 0
138 Mais la gloire...Je me sens petit. fr 0
97 Moi on m'acclame parce que tout le monde me comprend et vous on vous acclame parce que personne ne vous comprends. rencontre avec Albert Einstein fr 0
51 Notre sens de la vie a été émoussé par l'appètit du gain, le pouvoir et le monopole. fr 0
101 Oona, ma femme, a plus de sagesse dans son petit doigt que je n'en aurai jamais. fr 0
144 Pendant plus de 30 ans, j'ai vécu dans un bocal de poissons rouges. fr 0
38 Quelles que soient mes opinions personnelles, j'insiste sur leur intégrité inébranlable fr 0
81 Seuls ceux qui ne sont pas aimés haissent. Only the unloved hate, the unloved and the unnatural. Dictator fr 0
67 Si j'ai choqué, j'en suis ravi...! fr 0
137 Let's call them years of a friendly misalliance. en 0
90 A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. en 0
96 All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. en 0
23 Beauty is the object or the consciousness which amplifies the feeling of universality in man. en 0
118 Deep down we all have a sense of our own inadequacy about coping with life. It is something that all of us hide from the world yet it feeds the soul and endows our personality with charm. en 0
113 Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people. en 0
121 Education is the path to revelation. Teach the alphabet and you sow the seeds of rebellion. The free thinker travels light along the road to truth. en 0
150 Everyone's success is due only to the fact that they dramatize themselves. en 0
123 How awful the thought of oneness the yoga idea. One merging into all and all merging into one. Just think of merging into Herbert Hoover. en 0
126 Humor is kindly. Wit is caustic. en 0
45 I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man. (Mr Verdoux) en 0
64 I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, [with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings]; a history of dreams, desires and of special experiences, [all of which I am the sum total.] en 0
131 I envy anyone with skills doing things expertly, if it's only mending a shoe. I'd sooner have skill than happiness. en 0
92 I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born. en 0
47 I never thought we'd come to this. en 0
95 I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician. en 0
93 I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. Everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large. en 0
62 I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch. King in New York ? en 0
134 I'm a vegetarian. en 0
59 I'm an old sinner. Nothing shocks me. en 0
60 I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane en 0
55 If anybody else says it's like old times, I'll jump out the window. en 0
127 If only he had a vulgarity as rich as his intellect, how rich his work would be. en 0
39 If only the old and young could be the same age. en 0
20 In the realm of the unknown there is an infinite power for good. en 0
78 Intelligence puts art on a more agreeable level, if not a higher one. en 0
46 Knowledge inspires courage. I'm not skeptical but I'd sooner know than believe. en 0
141 Let us fight for a new world, a decent world! Dictator ? en 0
107 Let us strive for the impossible. The great achievements throughout history have been the conquest of what seemed the impossible. en 0
19 Life and death are too resolute, too implacable to be accidental. en 0
32 Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jelly fish. en 0
28 Life is a desire not a meaning. en 0
120 Look up, Hannah! The soul of man has been given wings and at last he is beginning to fly! Dictator's end en 0
22 Men who think deeply say little in ordinary conversations. en 0
82 No doubt you were extremely beautiful as a young girl, but your youth could never compete with your age now. en 0
73 Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our problems. en 0
72 Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles. c'est lequel finalement?? en 0
116 Nothing is permanent not even violence. en 0
36 Oh for the life of a sardine. That is the life for me. Cavorting and spawning every morning Under the deep blue sea. Limelight - Calvero's "Sardine song" en 0
79 Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express en 0
80 That which is apparent ends. That which is subtle is never-ending. en 0
130 The consciousness of me is not the real me. The real me is the one that consciousness watches and comments on what he does. The real me seems to me to be the untamable, irresponsible that seems to only function with consciousness as its guardian. en 0
77 The deeper the truth in a creative work, the longer it will live. en 0
1 The main theme of books[is] loneliness yet it is repellent unless one has resources within oneself and those that have are considered odd en 0
42 The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. en 0
75 There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books. en 0
124 Too much kindness and respect are given to the unseen and not enough to humanity. It seems that in our nature we loathe each other and bestow our respect and love on the abstract. en 0
119 We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. en 0
56 We are all amateurs, none of us live long enough, or know enough, to be anything more. en 0
84 What a sad business, being funny en 0
71 Whiskey! Never tasted such beastly stuff in my life! In a civilized country they drink wine. en 0
21 Wisdom usually grows up on us like calluses when we are old, gnarled and bent. en 0
65 [I am not a believer in ghosts, but neither am I a disbeliever]. In matters esoteric my mind is open because it's more fun to keep it open. en 0
40 [I suppose that's] one of the ironies of life : doing the wrong thing at the right moment. en 0
57 [I think] I am more stimulated by disagreement than agreement. en 0
14 [The mystic urge to gamble is as deep in man as the instinct to survive. It is as much a part of him and as unavoidable as breathing, for] whomever lives, gambles with life. en 0