Live Quotes

"If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently"

"Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters"

Derek Jacobi, Actor

"I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination"

Derek Jacobi, Actor

"Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live"

Eleanor Clift, Journalist

"We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe"

Bob Taft, Politician

"It's really easy to avoid the tabloids. You just live your life and don't hang out with famous people who are in the tabloids. Don't do anything controversial and be a normal person. Have friends. And get a job and keep working"

Amanda Seyfried, Actress

"I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one - only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs"

Karel Capek, Writer

"He'll come back to visit, but not to stay, not to live"

Joseph Jackson, Businessman

"It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room"

Helmut Newton, Photographer

"New York is still where I live most of the time"

Gerry Mulligan, Musician

"The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked"

Enya, Musician

"I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today"

Dawn Fraser, Athlete

"In my mind and in my heart, I feel okay. I cannot complain that I haven't lived long enough, but I'd like to live longer"

Freddy Fender, Musician

"I used to get quite upset that I'd make friends with a guy or a girl and then within the space of three years we'd move and go and live somewhere else, and you'd have to say goodbye to that person"

Dominic Monaghan, Actor

"For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport"

Fernando Alonso, Celebrity

"Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener"

Nanci Griffith, Musician

"We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature, and to bring life into harmony with the laws of nature"

Dmitri Mendeleev, Scientist

"We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets"

Jane D. Hull, Politician

"It is too late; now I wish I could live"

John Buford, Soldier

"Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America"

Kathleen Sebelius, Politician

"It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in"

Glenda Jackson, Actress

"Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz"

Chris Barber, Musician

"There's one more thing I want to say. It's a touchy subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn't always as celebrated as other types. I'd like to help change that if I can!"

Jody Watley, Musician

"I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom"

Jeanne Moreau, Actress

"Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training"

Fay Godwin, Photographer

"The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself"

Emmet Fox, Author

"No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after"

Edie Brickell, Musician

"We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends"

Fay Weldon, Novelist

"We bought an apartment building and were going to live off the rent money. We rented to people who were on welfare and a lot of times they couldn't pay the rent. We wouldn't throw them out so we lost the building"

Dick York, Actor

"From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed"

Bill Frist, Politician

"I have been going to Italy since 1980, but I always went to do work. I did not live overseas, because I do not like running around with everything I own in a paper bag"

Bill Dixon, Musician

"I can't get that live and I don't have the time to take the tape, after I've finished recording it, into a little studio somewhere else where I can get a different kind of percussion sound"

Danny Elfman, Musician

"MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna"

Carson Daly, Entertainer

"I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us"

Dorothy Dix, Journalist

"I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life"

Daniel Craig, Actor

"Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed"

Corita Kent, Artist

"Everyone is really getting along with each other and we enjoy each others company and love playing live"

Billy Sherwood, Musician

"Speak up! We live in a democracy. We all need to make sure our voices are heard and our opinions are known"

Bill Lipinski, Politician

"It's all about creating a back story for the character and developing emotional responses that are true to life in relation to the character. It isn't necessary to live a tragic life to create from that place"

Corin Nemec, Actor

"We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man"

Amy Vanderbilt, Author

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