Live Quotes

"Saturday Night Live is such a comedy boot camp in a way, because you get to work with so many different people who come in to host the show and you get thrown into so many situations and learn how to think on your feet, so filmmaking actually feels slow, in a good way"

Will Ferrell, Comedian

"I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous"

Van Morrison, Musician

"The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history"

Russell Lynes, Critic

"I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water"

Neil Young, Musician

"You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing"

Walker Percy, Writer

"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"

Studs Terkel, Journalist

"I generally sell my records online or at the show. You can undersell the distributor and the stores, and people know what they're getting cause they've just seen you live"

Roy Ayers, Musician

"In fact you've got your hands tied behind your back when somebody chooses to take a low road in to you, there is nothing you can do about it, and so you just live with it and move on"

Robert Redford, Actor

"I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night. Basically, very late at night. You don't watch, you just read the news after who won or who lost"

Javier Bardem, Actor

"I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean"

James Cameron, Director

"I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor"

Jack Kingston, Politician

"We've always wanted to do it, something you could dance to, and deep down we always thought we could bring something to the table if we could do it, but the live shows always made us pull back and be a rock band"

Frank Iero, Musician

"At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers"

Nick Mancuso, Actor

"I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources"

Marilyn Hacker, Poet

"With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy"

Lope de Vega, Playwright

"I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style"

Ken Burns, Director

"We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are"

William Gaddis, Novelist

"While some no other cause for life can give, but a dull habitude to live"

John Oldham, Celebrity

"I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns"

Nicholas Sparks, Author

"Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York"

Roddy McDowall, Actor

"That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself"

Naomi Watts, Actress

"I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year"

Patricia Velasquez, Actress

"It makes it very exciting don't you think to live in an age of, of discovery of human personality this way?"

John Money, Psychologist

"As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents and especially young people on ways to live a long, healthy and active life"

Lee Haney, Athlete

"I'm more of a homebody. I'm constantly asked: 'Why don't we see you out?' But that's not what drives me. I prefer to have people over - which I do a lot, because I bought a house that's way too big for me, and four of my friends live there"

Kristen Bell, Actress

"New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It's so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the country that we're serious about rebuilding New Orleans"

Billy Tauzin, Politician

"I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law"

Taslima Nasrin, Writer

"I've never lived in the visual world. I live very much in an emotional-contact world"

Richard Simmons, Celebrity

"The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it"

Frances Farmer, Actress

"Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion"

Thomas Browne, Scientist

"Number three, we're going to play very smart and we're not going to beat ourselves. If the other team is better than us and they just out execute us and play better then we can live with that, but we're going to play smart and give ourselves every opportunity to win the game"

Steve Spurrier, Coach

"You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last"

Ralph Abernathy, Activist

"I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge"

Mitchell Baker, Lawyer

"It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand"

Mark Rydell, Director

"If there was any other place I would live, other than Miami, it would be California. It's beautiful. The weather is just gorgeous, I love being here, too"

Jon Secada, Musician

"My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for"

Jane Rule, Author

"I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I don't. I have a life. I treat it as a 9-to-5. I try to create something new every day, and then I get on with my life"

Brian McKnight, Musician

"I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people"

Brad Thor, Novelist

"It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It's a miracle. I don't understand it. I live it very intensely"

Anne Parillaud, Actress

"We use tools such as email, not just as a way to keep in daily touch with family members who live in other cities, but also as a way to keep in touch with staff and members of the public"

Tipper Gore, Celebrity

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