It is always more valuable to report the truth.

At times discreetly, at times disgustingly, I yielded to the most fatal temptation whenever I could no longer bear it: as a result of impatience, Orpheus lost Eurydice; as a result of impatience, I lost myself.

I was a neophyte in another world [in 1954].

Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

There is no book of mine that I reject. That does not mean that I find them good.

Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.