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.

One good thing about acting in film is that it’s good therapy.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

You can always tell when a man’s well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.

According to Lifetime, I don’t know anything about TV.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

I’m not a film buff. I don’t watch a lot of movies.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Change alone is unchanging.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

I think – I don’t know, maybe it’s nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be – it’s gone. It’s going to be gone.

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

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.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

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

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

God created man, but I could do better.

Yes, I’m always – I’m always surprised when you make a film and you live with it a while and you put it out, you never dream that anybody is ever going to want to really see it.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

The honor of a nation is its life.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don’t know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying – please let me live until I am finished.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

I’m here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn’t make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.