Matthias Schoenaerts quotes

“We all get damned in our lives, and there are ripple effects. One thing can determine a life, and it's hard to overcome that if the event is really traumatic. Your life is completely condemned by it.”
-- Matthias Schoenaerts

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“I hooked up with director Jacques Audiard for this film called 'Rust & Bone' with Marion Cotillard. I loved that experience so much I'm truly sad that it's over!”
-- Matthias Schoenaerts

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“I'll let life take me where it will.”
-- Matthias Schoenaerts

Source : "Cannes 2012: Is Matthias Schoenaerts This Year's Jean Dujardin?". Interview with Rebecca Leffler, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 16, 2012.

“Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.”
-- Matthias Schoenaerts

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“I like underdogs, I like anti-heroes - people that have a hard time overcoming things in life.”
-- Matthias Schoenaerts

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“You can detect Satan's schemes and overcome his world system.”

“I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.”

“I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by.”

“Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.”

Source : A.S.A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife”, p.240, Hachette UK

“And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.”

Source : Adam Hochschild (2011). “King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa”, p.356, Pan Macmillan

“Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.”

“The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.”

Source : "Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar" by Marshall Brown, (p. 67), 1899.

“The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.”

“The Lord is my Rock. He has always been there, always present at good times and bad; and to me when I feel His presence, my life is full.”