Life Quotes
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My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.
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I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.
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There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.
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It's just this feeling of when you're a kid, you have these ideas about the world and about people in your life that don't always hold up as you get older and start to realise that things are more complex than you might've realised. That's always a big part of a coming-of-age story.
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I'm interested in making a path instead of following a trail, and that's what I want to do in life - in everything I do.
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When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. I withdrew to 'Cheers,' it was familiar in that it was family. It had a kind of realistic positiveness to it.
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My friends and I had fun together, but I was more reserved, not at all the life of the party. I would just be the quiet one in the room.
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To me, life without soccer would be like living a mindless and empty life.
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New York offers a bubble out of the literary life that is very useful. We have more time for the children, for the cooking.
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If you're serious about changing your life, you'll find a way. If you're not, you'll find an excuse.
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Amazingly enough, athletic achievement is one of those things that seems larger than life at points. I think we all look to sport for inspirations.
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Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.
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Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.
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I understand that ups and downs in life keep wavering, and it's important to understand them and why they happen. So I learn whatever I have to and then move forward.
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I don't see myself acting for the rest of my life.
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Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.
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Making films has never just been a job to me; it is my life. I have some interests outside of acting - I sing and I've written books, for instance - but acting is what keeps me going: it's what I do; it gives life purpose.
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Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.
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You want to do something, you want to have the bravery to do something original. And there will always be people who are like, the classicists who are like, 'No, but it's got to have this.' In life, there are people like that attached to every single thing that there is. These are the same people that are like, still playing vinyl.
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It's important to be yourself. What art does for everyone, helps you understand yourself and in a distilled way, whether it's a painting or a scene in acting or a joke. It distills something about everyday life that can be important to you.
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And I realized how much more complicated life is without the benefit of magic. Rubbing linseed oil into my blistered hands, I thought wistfully of how magic lets you skip over the steps of things. That is what makes it so appealing. But, I thought, the steps of things are where life is truly found, in doing the day-to-day tasks.
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For film and theater, you know how the story starts; you know how the story ends. With TV, you don't. It's literally like living real life in character.
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The greatest joys of life are happy memories. Your job is to create as many of them as possible.
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How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office - or watching TV? The answer is, No one.
