This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Comedians are sociologists. We’re pointing out stuff that the general public doesn’t even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we’re probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

Working with J Balvin has undoubtedly been an unparalleled experience.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

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.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

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

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.

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

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

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

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

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

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.

I just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.

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

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

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

I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don’t know how much experience you’ve had with contemporary Hebrew. It’s quite difficult.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

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

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

People have more freedom to bring more of their personal qualities into the role they play once they have established themselves and their competence is no longer in question. But this is always within limits.

I love being in a courtroom.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

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

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.