Jean Cocteau

The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.

I'm quite content to spend my life helping young people find themselves. I've had my fill of politics.

The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.