Quotes About Meaning

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

Real happiness comes from discovering a sense of importance in one's actions and in one's life.

I don't want real life necessarily to be seen only as a context to heighten the deepness my work.

Real Madrid's interest? Yes, it's true, Real Madrid were interested in me. It was an honour and pleasure for me, it means that I have worked well in these years.

I think there should be a reason tor people to be interviewed. For me, there's no real reason.

I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning.

The realisation that, depending on where we changed from one note to the next in a melodic line, the music could subtly influence the entire meaning of a scene in so many ways was like a door opening to this amazing new world for me.

My life experience has made me realise what's important and what is not.

I'm getting older; you realise you are on the countdown of what you are doing, so performing means more than it ever did to me.

In most films, when we act, we don't see such meanings in what we do. Rather, we don't realise it. Only when we see it as a continuous film later on do we realise such deep meanings. That is the brilliance of the director.

Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.

Being part of such a great club like Manchester United fills you with emotion, and you gradually realise how much the club means to the fans and the people who work here. They really live for the game, so that does become part of you, and you can only appreciate that having spent time here.

When I realise that I don't have a lot of time left to do what I'm meant to do in terms of buying things, that's when things begin to feel Christmassy for me - when I realise that time is against me, and I've got to act; otherwise, I'll look ridiculous.

When I was playing in England, I started to realise what Arsenal meant.

A few years ago, I got to a point where I realised that the only way you can tell someone's age is how they live their life. The candles on the cake mean absolutely nothing.

Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.

There seems to me to be something admirable, indeed noble, about the people arguing over Richard III. They're doers rather than naysayers, romantics rather than realists, people looking for meaning rather than numbness.

The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.

I'm not that interested in recreating reality. I'm interested in recreating an emotional truth.

I believe good writing can save bad art.

When you have good writing, the rhythm of the scene is very apparent. What the scene demands is very clear.

An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.

Can life be defined? Well, how would you go about it? Well, of course, you'd go to Encyclopedia Britannica and open at L. No, of course you don't do that; you put it somewhere in Google. And then you might get something.