Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts.
My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.
Nobody ever told me, 'Art is this.' This was good luck in a way because I would have had to spend half of my life forgetting everything that I had been told, which is what happens with most students in schools of fine arts.
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
But, of course, she didn't mean that she was going to retire from public life and only when the Queen removed her HRH some years later did she actually drop a hundred charities and just kept five.
It's pathetic to have regrets about fashion. Things to do with my life, yes, I have regrets there.
When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco.
Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.
I never, never in my life took a course in economics.
I always check my harness before I do a stunt; I test-drive the cars I have to race or explode; I'm present at all pyrotechnical rehearsals; and I walk through everything step-by-step. No man should put their life in someone else's hands unless they have covered their own safety from all angles.
I am not reclusive. I just have a private life.
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.
In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.
I try to make my life about service, and hope that one day we can all 'see' a little better because God is with everyone and everywhere.
I wish you could see some of the girls I have genuinely had crushes on in my life. They're not the girls you would assume.
Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them.
Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.
In real life, being a new mom, I would like to be able to sleep. I'd like to snap my fingers and be asleep because I'm a little sleep-deprived, at the moment.
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
It's not the easiest life in the world, but then no life is easy.
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!
The universe bursts into existence from life, not the other way around as we have been taught. For each life there is a universe, its own universe. We generate spheres of reality, individual bubbles of existence. Our planet is comprised of billions of spheres of reality, generated by each individual human and perhaps even by each animal.
You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life.
I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.
Show business is made up of disappointments, and it's through life's disappointments that you grow.
I don't want to be embarrassed when I go to see something on the screen. I don't want to listen to foul language, watch a lot of violence or see something immoral. I prefer stories with sensitivity and family values; films that strive to lift you up to a higher place in life.
I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.
I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.
If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.
To marry is to get a binocular view of life.
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
When you're an artist, there's always a moment in your life when you think you're not inspired and instead of doing things and instead of travel and instead of falling in love, you're just depressed, so you don't move, so you don't change. So you're not inspired.
My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you're a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything... I mean it's your mother, so I lost my mind.