Quotes

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.

There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

I love the theatre. It's a perfect life for an actor: you can do a couple of movies and then go and do a play, and then go back and do another movie. It's a nice way to live your life.

I'm not qualified to do anything else. So there better be another job. I'm kind of stuck now. I'm enjoying my life and I'm enjoying my work, and I'm enjoying the fact that the work I'm doing is garnering some interest and that's great. I just hope that it continues.

Music is an essential part of my life and I'm completely lost without a good album to listen to or my iPod in my pocket!

A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.

I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.

We had many books and pictures... my parents' way of life doubtless left a lasting impression on me. They created an atmosphere in which a certain kind of freedom could exist. This may well account for my seeking a related sense of liberty as I grew up.