Gad Elmaleh Quotes

I have never dissected my personal life. What sense would it make?

I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters.

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

I had to focus on some personal areas in my life with the little bit of privacy that I have.

I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.

I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.

I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.

I thought, I'm out in my life, that doesn't involve my public life.

There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.

I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.

When I am not acting or performing, I want to keep quiet and not to have a conversation.

I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity.

Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.

In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.

A Warrior also knows that the fool who gives advice about someone else's garden is not tending his own plants.

We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues.

The best advice I can give you is to ask yourself what do you want, then ask 'what is true' - and then ask yourself 'what should be done about it.' I believe that if you do this you will move much faster towards what you want to get out of life than if you don't!

Since attaining the full use of my reason no one has ever heard me laugh.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Happy are those who find fault with themselves instead of finding fault with others.

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who.

To keeping silence I resigned My friends would think I was a nut Turning water into wine Open doors would soon be shut So I went from day to day Though my life was in a rut 'Til I thought of what I'd say Which connection I should cut

The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.

Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self.