Gautama Buddha Quotes
Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.
Quotes to Explore
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The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.
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The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.
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I over-scrutinize anyone new entering my life.
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I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.
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I have a phone obsession. It's really hard on set sometimes because I'll be checking Instagram, and then I have to remember, 'Oh, crap, I have to shoot a scene or rehearse.' Every now and then, I have to turn it off and live my life.
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.
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I've given just as much of my life to that, and I practiced it with the same zeal, as I have acting. And I think that many of my skill sets from being a housewife I used for producing. Because you don't stop until it's done.
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I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.
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I have this dream of what I ultimately want my life to be like, and it involves a lot of quaint activities like cooking and canoeing and camping and hiking.
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The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life.
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I work as if I were going to be the next person to need a respirator. I share in the benefits I bestow on others, and my work has enriched my life.
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I always trained hard in my life to win the title, and I will train twice as hard to stay at the top.
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I've been loving music all my life.
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I certainly wouldn't define myself as a northerner. I'm not even really sure what that means. I've lived in London for 50 years. I wasn't born here, but I have spent most of my life here. So I don't make much of it, to be honest. I'm just myself.
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My life is just a series of mistakes and regrets of varying degrees.
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Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.
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Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.
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Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.
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To me, Sid Vicious is cool. Super chill.
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I decide intuitively what I want to do. When directors like Imtiaz Ali, Ayan Mukerji, Anurag Basu and Anurag Kashyap, who have stories to tell, come to me, why would I not be a part of it?
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What prevails in every corner of this globalized world is the real struggle of our species for its own survival.
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I don't often do a lot of that kind of research, but when it's something specific like 'Oz' - which I fortunately did not have a lot of experience with - I will. I read 'The Hot House,' about being on the inside at Leavenworth prison.
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Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.
