Quotes About Perspective

I shouldn't say I'm looking forward to leading a normal life, because I don't know what normal is. This has been normal for me.

This has been a wonderful life, absolutely terrific. There are very few things that I would go back and do differently, if I had that control.

Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life.

...I am now watching the movie of my life as I live it.

I think life awards you if have your priorities in the right place.

I'VE LEARNED THAT YOU CAN'T CONTROL WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO THINK ABOUT YOU. THE BEST YOU CAN DO IN LIFE IS NOT PISS YOURSELF OFF.

Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.

It's very humbling to imagine somebody else's really life and their pain ... It's my drug.

You are a cosmic happening rooted in a local event, NOT the other way around.

Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to.

Want to Think Big? Then get rid of the negative influences in your life. Harsh? Possibly. Healthy? Yes.

The road to the inn is much better than the stay.

I think I'm optimistic, yeah, especially in real life, but I think it's funny to be pessimistic.

The interesting thing about life is, there is what you think is going to happen, and what actually happens.

I just recently became aware of how tenuous my life is. I don't have time for fear.

Death is so preoccupied with life, that is has no time for anything else.

Given the loss of a child or the birth of a child or anything like that, I think it's just I'm more moved by life, the older I get, so it's easier to connect to the characters that I play.

I really don't care what movie stars have to say about life.

Without literature my life would be miserable.

Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.

One should not exaggerate the importance of trifles. Life, for instance, is much too short to be taken seriously.

I feel a real connection to Brooklyn, certainly, because I spent 20 years of my life there, but I don't think of myself as a Brooklyn artist any more than I think of myself as a male artist.

If I give up drinking, smoking, and fatty foods, I can add ten years to my life. Trouble is, I'll add it to the wrong end.

The past isn't fixed and frozen in place. Instead, its meaning changes as life unfolds.