- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life Quotes
Quotes on the meaning found in life.
Life quotes on this page range widely - from lifelong searches for spiritual meaning and questions about religious definitions of sin, to the more ordinary scene of people debating life's big problems over drinks. That range mirrors related pages like Life Status.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck - and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee - or you can go out and become an entrepreneur.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire life.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire life. I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the East Coast, people try to make life interesting. On the West Coast, they try to make it comfortable. The emphasis here is on fancy cars, how one looks, less on the mind per se.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
- Floors
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it weren't for the mentorship and guidance from people like my mother, James Brown and others, I wouldn't have been able to make something of my life.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020