I come from - I came from Wales, and it's a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn't waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with - life's too short.
If I give up my career as a skater simply because I fear I won't show my best performance, I would be really sorry later in life.
Money makes life easier but I don't want to be rich, not at all.
I've been an outsider all my life - I don't care.
I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.
If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?
My grandmother wanted my father to be a teacher because she was a teacher. He didn't go down that road until much later in life; he just kind of retired after almost 20 years as being a visiting lecturer at Stanford, where he got his graduate degree.
Fights in real life between real people only last so long before someone gets seriously hurt.
One thing I am really dying to do, while I'm still young and in shape, is an action movie. I would love to do a Lara Croft type of thing that's really physical and tough. I want to have a gun and do martial arts. I would love to get paid to get into the best shape of my life.
It's good for people to look at me and think, 'This guy is doing his thing and enjoying what he's doing and successful at it and living his life.' And that's what I'm doing, and I'm very happy.
I mean, I was just one of the ones who got exposed, and because of the position I was in, where I was in my life, it went mainstream. A lot of people got out of it after my situation, not because I went to prison but because it was sad for them to see me go through something that was so pointless, that could have been avoided.
I feel I'm pretty zen and laid back. I don't have a lot of rage in my real life.
The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.
Treat your life like something to be sculpted.
A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.
I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.
Everything in my life has happened very early, personally and professionally.
Oh heck yeah, I totally would love to have a Phantom Dennis in real life.
I've written and passed laws to give Medicare beneficiaries access to life saving cancer drugs and to ensure that seniors don't have to give up the prospect of a cure when they go into hospice care.
In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.
I like to express certain things that happen in my life, the joy of spring, the birds singing and young babies coming into the world. You know, the whole thing as well as the part I'm not happy with, the sad part.
During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life.
By silencing speech, the new Left makes life more dangerous by leaving violence as the only option. Maybe that's what they want.
I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really it. In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing.
In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.
I have not had any of that surgical stuff. I am too curious to find out exactly how I progress every day of my life naturally. That is what fascinates me.
Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
Discovering I'm gay just sort of happened much later in life.
An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.
And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
In the early ages, I believe not much thought was given to what man is and what his real functions should be, and what is the real purpose of his life.
Life is a glass of wine and having your feet washed - it's a biblical event, might I add. This is part of mankind's story. You are always looking for a moment to take a break.
I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I've had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn't been dull; I've been the Hiroshima of love.
It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.