I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don’t fancy having so much staff now.

From what I’ve heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really did it properly, which New York is getting to little by little.

My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that’s it. I don’t tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.

Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don’t keep buying just for the sake of it.

One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy, but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heat, and the excitement of being here made up for those hardships. I didn’t move to New York to make a fortune.

Americans move more than 10 times over the course of a lifetime.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

Paris ain’t much of a town.

When I retire I’m going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

It was easy being healthy when I was young. I was full of energy, so sports and physical challenges were fun. But as I got older and the spring left my step, exercise became harder, and eating, drinking and watching TV became easier. By the time I was 50, I’d put on 50 pounds.

I’ve stopped drinking, but only while I’m asleep.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don’t move fast, but I just keep moving.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn’t that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I’d already been translating French poetry, I’d been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

The Tao teaches us to let go of things. Use the 80/20 rule. If you take all your clothes, you’ll find out that you only wear 20 percent of them. Take what you have and don’t use and circulate it. Give stuff to people who truly need it. After all, we come into this world with nothing; we leave this world with nothing.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That’s what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

I’ve done everything every fat person ever has. I’ve tried every diet.

I have become vegan – I don’t take dairy or meat. It has helped me a lot in terms of recovery and digestion.

When you’re on the road and moving city to city, when someone isn’t there at the end of the night, you feel empty.

My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.

I can no longer walk in the street. That’s over.

Simple goes a long way.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that’s the law.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

I love to clean.

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

Paris is always a good idea.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

The reason I became 297 pounds is because that was comfortable. What was very uncomfortable was running. What was very uncomfortable was being on a diet. What was very uncomfortable was trying to face things that I didn’t want to face. And I also realized, when I was really big, I had no growth. Why? Because I was living comfortable.

Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

Simplify, simplify.

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

I have rooms full of little dongly things and don’t want any more. Half the little dongly things I’ve got, I don’t even know what gizmo they’re for. More importantly, half the gizmos I’ve got, I don’t know where their little dongly thing is.

I left Mainz after 18 years and thought, ‚Next time, I will work with a little less of my heart.‘ I said that because we all cried for a week. The city gave us a goodbye party, and it lasted a week.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

I have too many clothes, I have too many options.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I’m an idiot.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

In Paris, you’re as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm.

People change because of kids. They change how they eat. They change the way they think. They change the way they see one another.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

If I’d known how much packing I’d have to do, I’d have run again.

I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It’s more fun to come to Paris.

We all need to start making some changes to how our families eat. Now, everyone loves a good Sunday dinner. Me included. And there’s nothing wrong with that. The problem is when we eat Sunday dinner Monday through Saturday.

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.