21 Quotes by Yasmina Reza

Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists.

If I’m who I am because I’m who I am and you’re who you are because you are who you are, then I’m who I am and you’re who you are. If, on the other hand, I’m who I am because you’re who you are, and if you’re who you are because I’m who I am, then I’m not who I am and you’re not who you are.

Courtesy is a waste of time; it weakens you and undermines you.

What we like about women is sensuality, wildness, hormones. Women who make a song and dance about their intuition.

After I write, I have nothing to say. The commentary afterwards is superfluous. I write. And that’s enough.

Someday someone should make a study of the silence that falls inside a car when you’re returning home after having flaunted your well-being, partly to edify the company, partly to deceive yourself. It’s a silence that tolerates no sound, not even the radio, for who in that mute war of opposition would dare to turn it on?

Women always think you need a man, you need a father, as if they’d be the slightest use. Men are a dead weight, they’re clumsy and maladjusted.

All men and women go through the same fog.

Time changes everything, including the soul of a face.