This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self.
I really am having the time of my life. But as far as my future goes, I want to stretch myself as an actor in a way that Jake Gyllenhaal, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Meryl Streep do.
It's pretty easy for me to say that the most important thing in my life is my relationship with Jesus Christ, followed by my relationship with family. And football's later on down the line.
Whether you're trying to learn in hockey or trying to learn in life, I've always tried to be observant and tried to learn more, tried to evolve, whether it's as a hockey player or as a person. With each year, I try to do that.
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he had a great record collection. He had - it was all - these were the songs. So I heard a lot of these songs, like, my whole life, so for me it was easy. I already knew what I was going to sing.
You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn't work out.
We live through life, but we live through art, too. And in art, as in life, nothing is generalized. No one thing is a copy of the next. Everything is individual.
Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.
Being upbeat is the key to life.
If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.
It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding.' Now I realize the more I learn, the less I know about acting... and life.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.
To me, nothing is more fascinating or theatrical than real life. These people are in dire situations, where something extreme has happened in their lives.
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
It's important in show business to have friends who understand the cut and thrust of everyday working life and the constant rejection.
We played at a club called, the Elbow Room. Don Carlos, the nightclub owner, was very hip and a very important person who made a big impact on my life.
That mystic clasp of love lies not on the threshold but at the end of spiritual life, and can be reached for the most part only after much spiritual exercising, many denials, self-denials, watchings, and, it may be, the Cross of pain and disillusionment.
I was a bit of a big mouth my whole life. I'm a person who expresses themselves with a lot of openness.
Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.
Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.
Why, on my mother's birthday, am I thinking about 'Father Knows Best?' At our house, mother knew best at least as often as father did, but then the title of the old sitcom, a homogenized portrait of American family life, was meant to be slightly sardonic.
It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.
The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.
Ultimately you want to do something in life that people will remember. And with Buffy, I did that. I don't feel like I need to achieve something. I just do it because it's fun. And that takes the pressure off.
Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.
Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.
My new life is being with my wife without any interference, and the children come see us every once in a while.
Common sense is calculation applied to life.