"I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends."

"You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not."

"I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received."

"When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do."

"It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that."

"Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.'"

"Secrets travel fast in Paris."

"There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched."

"The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see."

"Lack is more in means than in principles."

"An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood."

"Men are lead by trifles."

"Who saves his country violates no law."

"Truth alone wounds."

"The most dangerous moment comes with victory."

"The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone."

"There are two levers for moving men -- interest and fear."

"Music is the Voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows"

"Revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets"

"In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them"

"Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people."

"Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents."

"Vanity made the [French] Revolution; liberty was only a pretext."

"I have only one counsel for you - be master."

"Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest."

"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."

"Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them."

"Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything."

"I must see her and press her to my heart. I love her to the point of madness, and I cannot continue to be separated from her. If she no longer loved me, I would have nothing left to do on earth."

"The heart of a statesman must be in his head."

"True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat."

"When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose."

"The first quality for a commander-in-chief is a cool head to receive a correct impression of things. He should not allow himself to be confused by either good or bad news."

"There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed."

"The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man."

"A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it."

"France has more need of me than I have need of France."

"The surest way to remain poor is to be honest."

"A Constitution should be short and obscure."

"Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them."

"Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them."

"A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets."

"I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne."

"The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need."

"Respect the burden."

"Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking."

"Medicines are only fit for old people."

"The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague."

"A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view."

"A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories."