Any movie I've done, my character has had a secret. Whether it's in the movie or not, it is usually never and it's usually not something I tell anybody. It is for me.
Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise.
He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he chooses to appear to want.
A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
I am hidden in your heart, O Flower.
It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures.
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions
A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love.
In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.
