Jean Cocteau Quotes

I've always been a stubble man; I don't do clean-shaven.

If I shave, I don't have a chin anymore.

If there's two things I will never do, it would be grow a beard and pick up the uke again.

Even if I were to retire, I wouldn't shave. Everyone I know, including my wife, has never seen me without it.

I never had long hair before I got busted. I never had a beard before I got busted.

That's a part of me going back to what I used to do.

I hate tricky facial hair. If your facial hair is too spotty in places, shave. Just forget about it.

I'm in the facial-hair phase of my career.

I can't just suddenly become 'Little Peace and Love Jair'... I've got to carry on being the same person.

It's such a privileged thing to say, but I'm still that same lazy person!

Pursuits become habits.

No matter where you go you are what you are player and you can try to change but that's just the top layer man you was who you was before you got here

If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?

How much of you is repetition?

A leapord never changes his stripes.

Habit is necessary to give power.

Are you doing what you're doing today because you want to do it, or because it's what you were doing yesterday?

Once one habit peels away the others follow it. You have to hold on, or the next thing you'll find yourself parading down the street in your nightdress. Habit is everything.

If you don't change your schedule, you'll be the same person you've always been.

Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.

You will always be a monster - there is no turning back from it. But what kind of monster you become is entirely up to you.

The way we do one thing is the way we do everything.

It's simple: either you have discipline or you haven't.

It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.

If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that causes it. We know full well that the insertion of new habits or the changing of old ones is the only way to preserve life, to renew our sense of time, to rejuvenate, intensify, and retard our experience of time - and thereby renew our sense of life itself. That is the reason for every change of scenery and air.