Quotes

I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education - that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.

Healthcare as a human right, it means that every child, no matter where you are born, should have access to a college or trade-school education if they so choose it, and I think no person should be homeless if we can have public structures and public policy to allow for people to have homes and food and lead a dignified life in the United States.

Public schools in the late '80s and early '90s were a total mess... we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children.

I don't think I'd ever get thin, but I don't see why I should necessarily think that I couldn't... You can't live your life for your routines.

A lot of those comics can't hold down relationships and they've got no other life apart from performing. They sleep in their Jags and a lot of them can't even talk. All they can do is tell gags.

I love teaching creative writing, and I think I'm good at it, but in a different life, I could have been teaching elementary school.

My wife has been incredibly supportive of me as a writer. Trying really hard to make sure I get the space and time I need to work as a writer and being willing to make some of the sacrifices that you have to make to live the life of an artist.

I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.

I enjoy being a character actor; I enjoy being different in everything. I want a private life; I want to be able to go to 7-11 and not get into a fight with a guy because he saw me in a movie, or not have people hitting on me simply because they saw me in a movie.

There are a lot of challenges Ofglen faces as a Handmaid. She has to live her life for the Commander of her home, Glen, and it is really a bleak life. She has no rights, and her main job is to keep him and the rest of the people in his house happy.

I think that's what makes life interesting - the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinating to me, the whole process.

In my life, I don't need to have my face plastered everywhere. It's not really something I want.

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.

Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.

Life is to be entered upon with courage.

Anybody who believes and experiences their life and doesn't have shades of gray in it doesn't live where I live and is simply not in touch with the reality of the human condition.

I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.

I started Instagramming, like, my model life, per se, when I was 14. I got into it as, like, this is an opportunity to be able to show yourself not just as a pretty face but as a personality, which I think models have never been able to have until now.

I've, like, lived in a bikini my entire life, so modeling bikinis was, I don't know. It was just so natural to me.

With acting, it wouldn't be about money: it would be about taking my life experiences and using them to create art.

I would look at my profile and be like, 'Look at this girl! She has, like, the most perfect life!' and I would feel so guilty for not feeling blessed all the time.