Life Quotes
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Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.
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For some reason, I got really obsessed with Samuel Pepys and his diaries when I read them, and with that period. I was probably a man with a wig and a frock coat in a past life!
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You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.
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I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.
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Repentance for one's evil deeds is the safeguard of life.
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I'll take my chances with this life all the same. The next one will find you no matter where you run. No sense chasing it.
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As a child, I was just never that interested in the lives of my favourite actors, like Cary Grant. I do wonder whether knowing too much about someone's personal life interrupts an audience's ability to suspend disbelief, to really invest in the characters. My preference would always be that people engage with the work.
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They used to but not any more. You kind of get used to it - you accept it is part of your job - if you're famous and you want this life, you have got to accept this part of it as well.
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I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was.
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Life never forgives weaknesses.
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For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.
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Singing has always been a part of my life. I started at Opryland singing, and I realized I could make a living at it. I thought it was something I would grow out of. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. Everything's just sorta fallen into place.
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I always feel that life can teach you how to act. I'm always looking at life through other people's eyes. By feeling empathy. And I do feel that I am constantly learning.
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The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.
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Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.
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No matter what you do in life, you want to make it boom. It can apply to anyone. Wherever you at, you always got to grow.
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Sports saved my life.
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I don't think I've had a holiday in my entire life that wasn't about my dad's work.
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For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
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Garry Shandling's stand-up specials were masterpieces of tightly crafted stories that delivered both hard jokes and hard truths. He was neurotic and self-deprecating, and his observations on life cut deep.
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There are many sides of the urban life that I dislike, but there are many sides I am deeply in love with and attached to.
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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
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Maybe my face is edgy, but that's because it's the face of somebody who's seen life.
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After boarding school in Switzerland, at, like, 14 or 15, my life clicked, and I just realized, 'I don't want to be like anyone around me at my school. I don't think the world revolves around money.'
