After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
The fact that my environment influences my life so much - and that my environment is in my control - gives me a great sense of empowerment over my health and my life.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
It hasn't been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it's been exciting and good and I'm thrilled to be an actress and a singer and to have spent my life this way.
Writers are looking for a story. Using your own life as the basis for a story gives it an association with reality that's a wonderful starting point.
'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.
In life, you know, they do this in focus groups; if you were in such and such circumstance, what would you do? Well, you never know what you're going do unless you're faced with it.
What I'm doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It's like anything else. The only time it doesn't really feel like work to me is when I'm on stage and doing what I've prepared myself for my whole life which is to stand out in front of a crowd and sing.
The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom.
I willingly took John Lennon's life. What I did was despicable.
TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.
Happy are those who dwell apart from the harrowing tumults of public life!
As the sun outshines the brightest star in the heavens, dispels every vestige of darkness and gives life and light to all beings, so, in a not too distant future, will the true religion of Christ supersede and obliterate all other religions, to the eternal benefit of mankind.
If a hero is a person on which you've made an explicit choice model yourself, mine is my father for showing me how to live a life of substance.
I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.
I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.
I realized that nature had invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward, as a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life. Rarely seen by the naked eye, this intersection between the animal world and the plant world is truly a magic moment.
Everyone always helped me out growing up, and everyone now supports me Sunday. So whenever there's a chance to give back, to the community, to the less fortunate kids so they have the opportunity to gain the most potential they can in their life to be success, it's always good to do.
Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.
Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.
People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.
I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.
I've always had an eye for the oddities in life.
If life gives you limes, make margaritas.
Friends are the sunshine of life.
I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
All my life, it's been the same with men. Being a woman who is famous and adored by men is very hard for any boyfriend to handle. All my boyfriends end up insecure.
I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life.
Must I tell the story of my life again?
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Since the age of 11, I have loved writing poems and fragments from my life.
I kind of think I'm going to live a long life as a punishment.
People are much more complicated in real life, but my characters are as subtle and nuanced as I can make them. But if you say my characters are too black and white, you've missed the point. Villains are meant to be black-hearted in popular novels. If you say I have a grey-hearted villain, then I've failed.
In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.
Marijuana. Boy, I thought that was just terrible. How could this great man do this to his life?
It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.
