Actor’s life is very long.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

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.

And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.

Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I’m concerned, that part is Greg’s for life. I’ve had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I’ve always refused.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we’ve ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

When I’m getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

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

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

I’m always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

A film is sort of binary – it either works or it doesn’t work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

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

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

‚This guy’s a clown! He’s just all talk!‘ I’ve heard that many times in my career. And then they’re sleeping in the middle of the octagon.

I love Notting Hill and Westbourne Grove – there is so much life and vitality around Portobello and Ladbroke Grove. It has come up a lot since I started Virgin more than 40 years ago, but there is so much character.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

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

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he’s terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he’s a terrific actor.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.