Demian Quotes

I open my eyes and my ears, and that's why I work. ~ Demian Bichir

One wants to think that - and this is really a stupid thought - that through your art or whatever you do as an actor you can actually affect someone else's lives and thoughts or whatever. ~ Demian Bichir

WE'RE SORRY YOU WEREN'T HOME. WE'LL FIND YOU AND KILL YOU. HAVING FUN PLAYING THIS GAME? ~ Demian Schatt

I hope people can stop believing everything politicians say about Mexico and the United States, and the problems that we share. ~ Demian Bichir

Fighting for me is a chess game. I'm not angry with my opponent. I just want to go in there and win. ~ Demian Maia

When you do a film, all you want is to make the best film possible. You don't think about Oscars. But it's really flattering. Please, bring it on! ~ Demian Bichir

Sinclair, your love is attracted to me. Once it begins to attract me, i will come. I will not make a gift of myself, I must be won. ~ Hermann Hesse

I don't believe in bad and good, I believe we are all a mix of both. ~ Demian Bichir

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself. ~ Hermann Hesse

I'm an old-fashioned guy. ~ Demian Bichir

Don't complicate whatever is not complicated. ~ Demian Bichir

The real secret to guacamole is that you use exactly the elements that you need, which is cilantro, onion, tomato, and jalapenos. And, of course, avocado. ~ Demian Bichir

It would be sad if my best work had been 20 years ago and now I only had memories. ~ Demian Bichir

We all have that capacity, to be two things. And after all I was named for both the devil and the angel. Demonio y angel. Dem-y-an. ~ Demian Bichir

What's important is the will to win. In the real world we can't always win. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. ~ Haruki Murakami

I wanted to give my actor a break. I wanted to live and to learn English. I wanted to be anything, a cabdriver, a busboy, anything to keep me away from acting for a while. ~ Demian Bichir

When your show keeps coming back, year after year, you have a responsibility because your fans know your show sometimes better than you do. You can't play games with them. You have to be really focused and concentrated, and play at your best in every department. The writing staff has to be fantastic. Our director line-up has to be great. Everything has to be better and better. Your fans keep track of the details. ~ Demian Bichir

When you shoot a film, you have very little time to waste, and I try to go into the character as soon as possible and stay there as much as I can. ~ Demian Bichir

Every man's story is important, eternal and sacred. That is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous and worthy of every consideration. ~ Hermann Hesse

There's good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we can't really trust are politicians. Because those guys lie to everybody and constantly. ~ Demian Bichir

Cinema serves as a constant reminder to us of who we are and what we are made of. ~ Demian Bichir

You don't need tons of money to create art. You do need tons of money to be a part of show business. They are two different things. ~ Demian Bichir

When you have great scripts, everything is very easy and fun. ~ Demian Bichir

A lot of people love Tarantino's films because they're spectacular, they're beautiful, they're wonderful. He hires the best group of artists - not only actors, but everyone around: best photographers, best set designers, best production designers, costume designers. A lot of people love his films because they're bloody, they're gory, they're savage. But very few people see that he's a very political director. ~ Demian Bichir

At the end of that class Demian said to me thoughtfully: "There's something I don't like about this story, Sinclair. Why don't you read it once more and give it the acid test? There's something about it that doesn't taste right. I mean the business with the two thieves. The three crosses standing next to each other on the hill are almost impressive, to be sure. But now comes this sentimental little treatise about the good thief. At first he was a thorough scoundrel, had committed all those awful things and God knows what else, and now he dissolves in tears and celebrates such a tearful feast of self-improvement and remorse! What's the sense of repenting if you're two steps from the grave? I ask you. Once again, it's nothing but a priest's fairy tale, saccharine and dishonest, touched up with sentimentality and given a high edifying background. If you had to pick a friend from between the two thieves or decide which one you'd rather trust, you most certainly wouldn't choose the sniveling convert. No, the other fellow, he's a man of character. He doesn't give a hoot for 'conversion', which to a man in his position can't be anything but a pretty speech. He follows his destiny to it's appointed end and does not turn coward and forswear the devil, who has aided and abetted him until then. He has character, and people with character tend to receive the short end of the stick in biblical stories. Perhaps he's even a descendant of Cain. Don't you agree?"

I was dismayed. Un ~ Hermann Hesse

Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we must renew it each day. ~ Hermann Hesse

Scarlett Johansson. I think people don't really realize how great of an actress that girl is. She's so beautiful and that distracts you from what she can do as an actor. ~ Demian Bichir

One of my dreams is to become sufficiently famous that I can play this charity match that happens every year or two with celebrities at Old Trafford, at the house of Manchester United. ~ Demian Bichir

But whereas we, in our conception, represented the will of nature to renew itself, to individualize and march forward, the others lived in the desire for the perpetuation of things as they are. For them humanity - which they loved as we did - was something complete that must be maintained and protected. For us humanity was a distant goal towards which we were marching, whose image no one yet know, whose laws were nowhere written down. ~ Hermann Hesse

I believe in characters that can be tangible, and that you can actually relate to. ~ Demian Bichir

The immigration issue is about the separation of families, and that is not human, in any country in the world, but especially in the United States. We should not root for a law that separates families. ~ Demian Bichir

I saw Demian's face and remarked that it was not a boy's face but a man's and then I saw, or rather became aware, that it was not really the face of a man either; it had something different about it, almost a feminine element. And for the time being his face seemed neither masculine nor childish, neither old nor young but a hundred years old, almost timeless and bearing the mark of other periods of history than our own. ~ Hermann Hesse

For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal. ~ Hermann Hesse

We need to know the facts, in order to tell the politicians, "Excuse me, I don't want you to use my money on building a wall that is not going to solve any problems. We have to go this direction instead." ~ Demian Bichir

All I wanted was to try and realize whatever was in me. Why was that so difficult? ~ Hermann Hesse

I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story is not intended for them. I am telling it to those who have a better knowledge of man. The adult who has learned to translate a part of his feelings into thoughts notices the absence of these thoughts in a child, and therefore comes to believe that the child lacks these experiences, too. Yet rarely in my life have I felt and suffered as deeply as at that time. ~ Hermann Hesse

An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led. ~ Hermann Hesse

So, whenever you hear or see violence, there is violence on both sides of the border, or it's both country's responsibility. When we talk about trafficking with weapons, with human beings or with drugs, we talk about it on both sides of the border. ~ Demian Bichir

We who bore the mark might well be considered by the rest of the world as strange, even as insane and dangerous. We had awoken, or were awakening, and we were striving for an ever perfect state of wakefulness, whereas the ambition and quest for happiness of the others consisted of linking their opinions, ideals, and duties, their life and happiness, ever more closely with those of the herd. They, too, strove; they, too showed signs of strength and greatness. But as we saw it, whereas we marked men represented Nature's determination to create something new, individual, and forward-looking, the others lived in the determination to stay the same. For them mankind
which they loved as much as we did
was a fully formed entity that had to be preserved and protected. For us mankind was a distant future toward which we were all journeying, whose aspect no one knew, whose laws weren't written down anywhere. ~ Hermann Hesse

I have been in the business long enough to know what an intense amount of work it takes to operate a theater company. ~ Demian Bichir

There are no gods, paladin. There is no afterlife, no eternal reward. You, in fact, are a slave to a creature you cannot even comprehend." Demian stabbed the stick he still held into the ground. "All that a man has in this world is his own will, the freedom to do what he desires. Taking away that is the greatest crime one can inflict upon another. Murder – it is terrible. But it is over in an instant and the dead never can truly understand what has happened to them. They are simply gone. But slavery – day after day, year after year shackled to another's whims – it is the most heinous of crimes. ~ Alec Hutson

It's a really, really hard life when you don't have a document that actually gives you a name and a face. ~ Demian Bichir

You have to try your best to have peace of mind, and whatever happens you know you did your best ~ Demian Maia

I believe in creative work. ~ Demian Bichir

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. ~ Hermann Hesse