Quotes About Life

With 'The Sea,' I was just thinking about loss, about the impact losing your father would have on you as a child, how one event that big could colour your life, bleed into everything else and force you into a certain shape.

The 'Colours Of My Life' album is literally a 50-year retrospective.

Work has been the central column for most of my life; it has always been my identity.

Our life is a combination of a certain amount of energy and a certain amount of time.

Playing Ann Landers is like channeling my mother. That combination of love and the enjoyment of life is my mother. And you find that combination in Ann Landers' letters.

Everything has combined to make my life in New York an amazing experience. I told my manager a few years ago that I wanted to move here and try acting in the theater.

I want to have not only the good side of life but the bad side of life. And the both combined is just my music. It's funny at the same time as it's sad.

Basketball will come and go, but the person you are will always remain.

I've said it before that fame money and women will all come and go in your life, so I'm not worried about the money.

I've paid a lot of dues, learned a lot, seen people come and go, what to do and what not to do.

You do a lot of movies, then you let others do it when you go and perform another role in life. When you again return to acting it shouldn't be taken as their comeback.

I spent 25 years as a stand-up comedian.

All great comedians make me laugh, but people make me laugh more.

I've always found the world funny and enjoy laughing at it, and that's what all comedians do.

I actually see comedy in death.

In life, there's a ying and a yang and a balance. And when you don't have balance, you have comedy.

I think there should be comedy in everything; it doesn't matter what you're doing.

Comedy's about things the way they are. It's about the world as it is, not the world as we would like it to be, and science is the same, really.

Dying is easy; comedy is hard.

At the end of the day, people enjoy being comfortable. But that's not what life is about.

I think I have got comfort, beautiful kids; I can do whatever I want, travel around the world... I know it's sounding very materialistic, but it's been a comfortable life.

I write to escape from my life. Writing about men separates 'me' from my work in a way that I find comforting.

I think anytime in someone's faith journey, my faith journey also, you go through doubting... I think you kind of have to go through that, honestly, just to ask the tough questions... I mean, life is crazy, and to know that, honestly, a loving God is walking through it with me is very comforting for me.

I was born a comic.