The only thing I ever wanted to do is never have to work a day in my life.
When you're acting, you do have to prepare yourself for doing that. You have to leave behind - or you try and leave behind - anything that's going on in your personal life.
Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
Life is so great every day. I am telling things every day.
Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
My life is not just about the past.
You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited.
That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed.
I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Sundance is going to be a defining moment in my life. But the unfortunate thing about Sundance is, when you have a film there, you can't have the opportunity to see other films.
There is nothing I have to reflect on that gives me more satisfaction than the fact that my life is insured for the benefit of my Dear Wife and children.
He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like.
Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
I'm quite shy, so I hate seeing my private life splashed over the papers.
I'm very glad to have something to be passionate about. I can't imagine a life without passion.
I find that my entire life has come to me, and things happened without me planning them. You know, I never asked to photograph Princess Diana, and that made me more famous than I wanted. I never asked to photograph Madonna, and that pushed me to another level. There are things that just take you into the limelight.
My mom is a constant in my life in so many ways.
There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.
All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
I just felt like I couldn't deal with the everyday responsibilities of life, paying bills and all of that. I'm terrible at all of that. So I knew I had to make enough money to pay someone else to deal with all of that.
I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.
Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite - it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life.
Without literature my life would be miserable.
I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.
I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven.
When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.
Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.
I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.
I'm always jacked up. I'm pumped up. It's just, I love life and I'm having fun.
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.
I was directed because I knew I wanted to be a novelist, but I didn't have a very good job or a way of getting published. I found those years to be among the most difficult of my life.
There are a lot of different facets to my personality that I don't use all the time in my house, or in everyday life, that I can experience and share when I'm on a stage.
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
