My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.
Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.
Going from 300 pounds to 150 pounds was the biggest change of my whole life.
Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.
In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.
If you're with someone who makes you happy in your personal life, then you're happy with where you're at.
It's strange how parts come along, how life lives us, and what we get to do with the abilities that are given us.
I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
I've always wanted to do right in life. But the wanting and the doing aren't quite the same thing.
There's more to life than physical and material.
In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.
I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive.
Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.
For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
Bitterness and unforgiveness block the flow of God's blessing in your life and actually hinder your prayers.
I trust if your life is right, the right things will happen at the right time. If the chords are in harmony inside, I think other things will happen in the same way. That sounded highfalutin' to me once, but I believe it now.
I learned early in life that you get places by having the right enemies.
I would argue that in any habitable zone that doesn't boil or freeze, intelligent life is going to emerge because intelligence is convergent.
After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.
Basically, my life is so boring, it's embarrassing.
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him.
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.
I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.
I often quote Ronald Reagan, who is pretty close to my favorite President ever, I will have to say that, but one of my favorite remarks he ever made was that when you look at Federal programs, there is nothing so close to eternal life on Earth as a Federal Government program.
If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.
I think that any woman who had a conversation with me and had an opportunity to truly understand my life story wouldn't view it through a critical lens. There are people, of course, in the world of politics, who look for things to be critical about. But those people are already against you.
I've seen my own blood and broken a few bones. I've been hit, which isn't an entirely bad thing, as at least you have a glimpse of the suffering endured by the people you are photographing. And in a sense, crumbling empires and war have been with me all my life.
I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.
Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
I was taught that you can't be a healthy individual without art, music, or nature in your life. All my art is tied into inner cultural experience. It has to do with music or ceremonies or nature, even the funny ones.
I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.
It's been so nice for people to have a favorable reaction to what I've done. You work hard, and you try your best, and like anything in life, when people respond well to it, it's like, 'Well, good. I'm headed in the right direction here.' So it's been really, really nice.
My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre.