Actor’s life is very long.

Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again?

My life is my argument.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

You never get over losses. I’ve never gotten over one loss I’ve had in my career. They always stick with me.

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

My life is real.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

I met Will Smith twice. I didn’t talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him – he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

How young can you die of old age?

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven’t seen him in five years. Where have you been? So, it’s a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I’m in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don’t feel like you don’t know where I’ve been.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn’t think I’d play one year in the NFL, and now I’m going on my 17th year.

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

The art is long, life is short.

Life is a dead-end street.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

Oh yes. I’m an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career – which is very short.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.