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Life Quotes


"The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end."


"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in."


"Sometimes you make choices in life, and sometimes choices make you."



"I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing."



"Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life."


"I have no intention of discussing my private life with anyone."


"If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm."


"In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn."


"Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life."



"After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life."



"I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence."


"The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living."


"Seeking refuge from a world in which huge and mysterious forces were let loose to destruction."


"I mean, look, I wear makeup in films. I don't wear makeup in real life. It's just part of the gig, that's all."


"It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life."


"Life is a stranger's sojourn a night at an inn."


"The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cell phone replaced."


"Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes."


"But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess."


"So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die.""Yes," said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. "What's this switch?" he cried."What? Where?" cried Arthur, twisting round."No, I was only fooling," said Ford, "we are going to die after all."



"Life has become the ideology of its own absence."



"All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever."


"I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience."


"I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love."



"The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come."



"Life isn't long enough for love and art."


"It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth."


"It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight."
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