Quotes

Even if Pearl S. Buck hadn't spent most of her life in China, she'd have every right to write about it.

The proliferation of styles, genres, and media need not be the death knell of anything. Instead, it's a sign that our acceptance for variation and experimentation has become wider, our interests have become more diverse, and our appetites have become more omnivorous.

Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life.

I work 18 to 20 hours a day, seven days a week, so I don't have time for a social life. Or any life outside work.

You only get one life. You have to do what you feel is right with it.

A 'naughty pickle' is how I'd best describe myself. I think fun and laughter is the whole point of life.

Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful, and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do.

Living as an actor is rather like living life on the trapezes in a circus. Every time you jump on, you have to pray that, when the time comes for you to jump off, there is another trapeze swinging your way.

I left school the day I turned 16, the earliest day I legally could. Determined to follow a life on stage, preferably with some dance connection, I applied for and won a place at the local drama school. I was on my way.

I've had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I'm not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag.

The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.

There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life.

The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially, the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate.

My feet are definitely more grounded than before. And I know that I'm not holding onto a dream. I'm holding onto my life.

I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing.

I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.

Never say that your life is to be a singer. You want to sing because it's a part of your life. But if you don't succeed as a singer, it doesn't mean you don't have a life and it's over.

I gave life, and that is beautiful.

I have shared my whole life. My private and my show business life. It helps me actually to feel my songs and to go on with my dreams.

I'm passionate about my fans and my shows. But my biggest reward in the success that is my life are my husband and kids.

I love to sing and perform. It is what I do and love. It completes my life.

I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby.

With 'Back to the Future', time-traveling lets you go back to a better, more comfortable life where your parents are happy and you have a lot of money - the capitalistic version of time travel.

I decided to put cinema at the centre of my life when I was 13 and going through the biggest crisis of my life: teenagehood.

When I turned 13 all of my life was designed around earning money to buy cinema tickets.