In my opinion, life is more important than show business.
My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side of New York.
I think life is what you live every day, and it just keeps coming at you. You never know what it's going to be.
I love my personal life and having a social life. And I didn't ever want to have to compromise.
At 27 or so I thought, you know, I actually do really want to make money and have a proper life, and I don't want to be a loser. I know! I'll go to university and get a proper degree and maybe get a job in media... I went and did an English degree.
Generally, I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's the way I can access the emotional life of the character.
I don't want to, in the last three minutes of my life, know that I lived it for somebody else.
On one level, I would prefer never to hear the words 'James Bond' again, but on another level, it is part of my blood and my life. And it's the only movie in the world that offers a British actor the chance of international recognition.
Being an Arab leader has its rewards: the suite at the Waldorf-Astoria during the United Nations General Assembly, travel in your own plane, plenty of cash, even job security - whether kings, sheiks or presidents, with or without elections, most serve for life.
It takes courage to sit on a jury. How many of us want to decide the fate of another person's life or freedom? How many of us want to hold that kind of power in our hands?
On a deeper level, there's a level of privacy that I need in order to work, and if there's been a time when there's been a lot of publicness in my life, it can be a little bit difficult to sort of rebuild that private space.
We learn our belief systems as very little children, and then we move through life creating experiences to match our beliefs. Look back in your own life and notice how often you have gone through the same experience.
My life is spontaneous and things just kind of happen.
I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.
All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught never, never to lie.
I arrived in Bangkok in 1980: I was 23 years old, and it changed my life.
Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village.
For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
I don't ever want to get too comfortable in my career or life. My nature is such that I'm always looking for new challenges.
I'm not driven. I love writing. My imagination is always working. I write when I have time, and life allows me the time.
I'm incredibly proud of 'Life On Mars' and 'Doctor Who.' They're just a blast to do.
I know there's a principle of spirit. It works without space-time. I am subject to that principle, in spirit and in belief of body. Learn how spirit works, a few simple rules, living a perfect spiritual life is easy.
God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart.
I loved growing up in a little town. I loved knowing people. I loved going to the store and running into people. I loved going into the store and having forgotten my bag, saying, 'Charge it, put it on my bill.' I loved going to the gas station and saying, 'Pete, fill it up.' I loved that continuity of life.
We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to human life.
All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.
What you learn about pain in formal meditation can help you relate to it in your daily life.
For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it.
I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books.
Spina bifida affects every single aspect of your life, from your child's self-esteem to your ability to sleep at night.
My first movie ever was 'Breaking Away.' I stumbled into an incredible part in a movie that was incredible to be a part of. Peter Yates, the director, became a lifelong friend. He sort of plucked me from obscurity and gave me a life.
It pleased the public to think I lived the easy, carefree life - the playboy of golf.
The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from them, are measures of the common good that serve to evaluate the relationship between justice and injustice, development and poverty, security and conflict.
I'm just a big kid; I get excited. That's probably the one thing in life that I get really excited about is cars.
There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life, it's a continuity thing. You can't have a great moment because it's spiritual. It's a belief, it's a calling. If you're an artist, doing your own thing on your own, it's while you're doing it that counts. It's a process. If you get too elated, you can get too depressed.
My relationship with Salman Khan is too personal to talk about. I take my work like any other regular job, and what I do in my personal life is no one's business. I'd rather let my work do all the talking.
