Life Quotes

Your life is the same wherever you go.

Maybe I've got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make some more films. Maybe I'll direct a film. Maybe I'll have my musical put on stage. But nothing, really, to be absolutely honest, competes with making a very successful pop band for 10 years of my life.

For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I had no other social life. I don't want my life to be like that now. I've spent the past 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun.

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again.

I think brutal honesty is extremely important. Don't be afraid of being up-front about your feelings and your life.

A trip to space is a big motivator to give up some things in your personal life. Obviously, you can't give up everything and you don't want to.

By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.

The fact that so many of your people are today residents and citizens of the United States, lending their influence to our civic and economic life, which has meant so much to our development.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

A human life is a schooling for eternity.

Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.

The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.

I want to resume the life of a shy person.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

Everything in my life has been a stepping-stone to something else.

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.

You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.

One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.

Even a criminal has the right to a new life, but they made sure I did not have that. They just didn't stop calling me a prostitute for ever and ever and ever and ever.

I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis.

I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.

I am absolutely intrigued by life, and I really want to hold onto it.

Because too much of my life was spent waiting to be seen. Hoping to be seen, hoping to be picked. Once you realize that you aren't looked at that way any more, other things start to happen and you have to depend on other things to get by.

Sometimes, you need different things in life, you need different challenges that will give you that little boost.

I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!

I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.

I have developed a Zen-like approach to the operating systems that people use: 'When you're ready, the right operating system will appear in your life.'

What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life.

Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.