Life & Living: Life Quotes

"I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow, you're not what I expected"

Mariska Hargitay, Actress

"I pretty much ignored politics all through my 20s and 30s... I had other things on my mind... the band, finding a meaningful relationship, getting enough money to eat and pay the rent"

Mark Edwards, Celebrity

"I am not 100% English, I am actually part Italian and even part Hungarian. Therefore I feel very much part of Europe both in my upbringing and outlook"

Bruce Bennett, Actor

"I've been around doing a little of this and a little of that"

Joseph Force Crater, Judge

"I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's"

Julie London, Musician

"We all have our own little thing, I think"

Patricia Arquette, Actress

"I grew up in a hippie commune, so I have a real hippie part of me"

Patricia Arquette, Actress

"I've always been a pretty private, quiet kind of person and so I haven't had to change my life really at all, I don't think"

Keith Urban, Musician

"I prefer to watch people"

Michael Winterbottom, Director

"The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity"

Nicholas Mosley, Novelist

"Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people"

Joe Frazier, Athlete

"I looked over and saw this man on the extreme right aisle sort of galloping to the podium. He was tall, he was thin, and the way he was galloping, it looked as though he was going someplace much more important than the podium"

Betty Shabazz, Activist

"When the show is over, we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do"

Jamie Farr, Actor

"My whole life has been one of seeking experience"

Jerry Kramer, Athlete

"I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education, but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early"

Francois Gautier, Writer

"I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood"

Penelope Spheeris, Director

"With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life"

Frederick Soddy, Scientist

"I have known great things and wonderful persons, and I have known homage"

Lillie Langtry, Actress

"You see these shuffling rows of shiny faces, waiting for their turn, so they're very dedicated to the program and desperate to know what it is they've got - so often, they have no idea"

Michael Aspel, Journalist

"My life. The life I'm living, that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences"

Fred Durst, Musician

"Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act"

Peter O'Toole, Actor

"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little"

Agnes de Mille, Dancer

"I really do believe in the influence of your surroundings"

Matt Sharp, Musician

"I like to walk around my apartment naked. I like sitting around in the nude watching sports, actually"

Kylie Bax, Model

"I've never had to fight hard for anything I've gotten in the past"

Tyrese Gibson, Actor

"The truth is, I'm drawn to all kinds of things"

Philip Kaufman, Director

"Life is so great every day. I am telling things every day"

Nina Hagen, Musician

"I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me"

Carly Patterson, Athlete

"I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch"

Stephanie Zimbalist, Actress

"We need to have as broad a range as possible, because life itself has that kind of range"

John Eaton, Politician

"I took drugs because we all took drugs"

Marianne Faithfull, Musician

"I grew up in a trailer park in Bellingham, Washington"

Hilary Swank, Actress

"There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention"

Verne Troyer, Actor

"I don't really like dressing up. Some people probably think actresses dress up everywhere they go. I'm in sweatpants half the time with my hair in a ponytail"

Selena Gomez, Actress

"Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve"

Janice Dickinson, Model

"Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else"

Oliver Joseph Lodge, Physicist

"I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, it's my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish"

Jonathan Frakes, Actor

"Soon after I was born, my parents moved to the South Florida area, and I've lived here ever since (with a few years of living in both Portugal and Brazil in my younger days)"

Joe Tex, Musician

"I am a conservative type of person, so sometimes when I'm chilling with myself, people always come ask me, 'What's wrong with you? What are you wondering about?'"

Wayne Wonder, Musician

"I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore"

Olivia Newton-John, Musician

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