Acting is a question of absorbing other... by Jean-Paul Sartre | We Heart Quotes

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

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Other quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

Belief

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Battle

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

May War World

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Man

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Work

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Science God Men

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

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