Eugene O'Neill Quotes
I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.
Quotes to Explore
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You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
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Obviously, exercise is an important part of my life, and I think taking care of yourself is an important part of every individual's health care.
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I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.
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I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.
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Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
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It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.
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Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
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I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.
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I remember when I met my wife and that she could just grab my hand and I would just ease. I don't know how to say that but it was one of the coolest things. It was strange, but it definitely changed my life.
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Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.
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I spent a whole year in New York without going back to France. And I always came back because my mother was living in New York since I was 13. So I went to summer camps, hang out at the Roxy, go to class for ballet, so I always had part of my life in New York.
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Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved, although you wouldn't know that from literary reviews and critics.
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We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.
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I don't consider 'American Rose' to be a biography so much as a microcosm of 20th-century America, told through Gypsy's tumultuous life - it's 'Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.'
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I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.
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Let me say before I go any further that I forgive nobody. I wish them all an atrocious life and then the fires and ice of hell and in the execrable generations to come an honoured name.
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Everyone has an internal age, a time in life when one is, if not one's best, then at very least one's most authentic self. I always felt that my internal clock was calibrated somewhere between 47 and 53 years old.
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Most of my favorite people in my life are gay. It's something I'm super passionate about, because whenever I would see my friends get bullied, or my brother get hurt for his sexuality, I would become a raging lunatic.
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Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.
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Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.
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An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
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I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.
