My Life Quotes
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After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.
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I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.
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Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that.
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Here's how I've lived my life: I've never been late to a set. I make films I believe in. I feel privileged to be able to do what I love.
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Most of my life, I've been on a film set. There isn't anything to learn, not learn, unlearn. It's just in me.
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This fascination with the human face has never left me... Every face I see seems to hide and sometimes, fleetingly, to reveal the mystery of another human being... Capturing this revelation became the goal and passion of my life.
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Acting probably saved my life. It gave me a home and a safe place to let out all of my emotions and have it be okay.
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When my family fell apart, it was such a troubled part of my life... I think I could understand what I was going through, but I didn't have the vocabulary for it.
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I try to live my life, do what I want, and just let everything else follow along.
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I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.
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There isn't a dude outside my dad who had greater influence on my life.
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I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it's endurance.
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I don't want to live my life to entertain other people. I have other things that I'd like to do.
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I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I was 13. It was the most important thing in my life.
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It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.
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Before, singing was my life, my vocal chords used to lead the way. Now, I'm in-charge.
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My dad always made sense. My dad was only wrong when I didn't understand him. Had I listened to him, my life would have been so much easier.
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Not a day goes by that I don't still need to remind myself that my life is not just what's handed to me, nor is it my list of obligations, my accomplishments or failures, or what my family is up to, but rather it is what I choose, day in and day out, to make of it all. When I am able simply to be with things as they are, able to accept the day's challenges without judging, reaching, or wishing for something else, I feel as if I am receiving the privilege, coming a step closer to being myself. It's when I get lost in the day's details, or so caught up in worries about what might be, that I miss the beauty of what is.
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Ray Harryhausen's 'Sinbad' picture was the first film I remember seeing. I was two years old when it came out, and it changed my life forever. I had nightmares about dragons and stuff for years - and loved it!
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'Confessions of a Video Vixen' is not a book about my encounters with celebrities, or anyone else for that matter. It is my life story, thus far, which just so happens to include some people you may have heard of.
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You could be my unintended choice To live my life extended. You could be the one I'll always love. You could be the one who listens To my deepest inquisitions. You could be the one I'll always love.
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I don't have examples in my life of people who are all good or bad; I have deeply loved many people who are both, and I relate to those kinds of people on a far greater level.
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I enjoy being me; I always have done. I've seen people where it rules their lives, you know, who want to be thinner or have bigger boobs, and it wears them down. And I don't want that in my life. It's never been an issue - at least, I've never hung out with the sort of horrible people who would make it an issue. I have insecurities, of course, but I don't hang out with anyone who points them out to me.
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Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me joy if I didn't act anymore.
