Quotes About Contentment

If I die tomorrow I could die happy, because this feels like possibly the biggest thing I'll ever do in my career, and I'm fine with that. I get to be in a movie with Gaga.

I don't believe happiness comes out of material gain, for sure.

There are more things to gain from eliminating excess than you might imagine: time, space, freedom, and energy, for example.

Settling is not necessarily a bad thing. People tend to take it as 'losing something in order to gain something else.' That does not have to be the case. Instead of using the word 'settling,' we should actually be using the word 'compromising.'

I love playing with my dog and just sitting on the patio with people I don't get to see very often anymore. I'm a pretty simple gal.

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.

Luckily, I'm not a gambler or a drinker or - you know, I get my fix of comedy.

I don't need five Ferraris in my garage to feel great; that's not what matters to me.

I spent hours playing in the garden on my own. I used to play cricket with myself. I never remember thinking, I wish I had a brother or sister. I had a lot of friends, and that was fine.

My favorite days are at home. Spend some time in the garden, cook a couple of nice meals, watch a couple of movies. I'm pretty boring.

I hate going anywhere. I'm really excited to travel and play all these different places, but if I had it my way, I would stay inside, maybe go to the back garden or walk around the corner to the shops. That's it.

I'm happier in a garden.

I like my garden. It sounds boring, but it's not.

I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden?

I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.

If I'm in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge - l'art d'accommoder les restes - it means gardening.

I consider myself extremely fortunate, and I am more happy for all the attention that I constantly garner.

Well, everybody is trying to make this a money thing. If you send me to another team, let's see what I ask for. I won't ask for nothing. I'll play under the same terms. So it is not Gary wants more money. Gary has money. What else do I need?

You don't get a script sent to you for two years, it crosses your mind, 'Gee, what's going on?' Then five years pass, and pretty soon a decade has gone by. Finally, you say to yourself, 'Well, if in fact that's it, then let me be happy with 30 pictures that made about $460 million and pictures that made a lot of people laugh.'

Blissfully, I don't have the revenge gene.

But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.

I'd grown up with no money and, when money had come into my life, I hadn't cared about chasing it. Earning it was very exciting, but only because it gave me the chance to be generous with my mates and show them how much I loved them.

I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.

I make a genuine distinction between loneliness and aloneness. I know what each is like. There are times I'm lonely. But there are also many times when I need to be alone, when I don't want the feeling of someone else in the house other than the cats.