Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

We don’t have to guess what Mitt Romney would have done if he were president. Because he told us. He said we should let foreclosures – and I quote – ‚hit the bottom‘ so the market could – I quote – ‚run its course.‘

‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

‚Leading man‘ just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

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.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

I don’t have a vast longing for the stage.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

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.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

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.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

People see me on the street, and they point to me, and they’re like, ‚Hey! All right, all right, all right!‘

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That’s the way I always work.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

I wouldn’t use the word ‚scared‘ for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ‚tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

A worthy woman personifies the truly noble and worthwhile attributes of life.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Acting is happy agony.