"The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it."

"Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on."

"When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time."

"There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it."

"Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis"

"Everything in life is somewhere else and you get there in a car."

"Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep."

"Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch."

"The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines."

"But real life is only one kind of life—there is also the life of the imagination."

"Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it."

"After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die."

"The biggest thing is to let your voice be heard, let your story be heard."

"I wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I wasn't good enough. I got into city college because I didn't have the grades to get into university. I took acting because it was a way to get three credits. I just needed three credits and my friend told me to take acting because it was like gym - nobody fails you. I took it and that's literally how I got involved in acting."

"The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk."

"This is your life. Now go make it the one you've always wanted."

"You spend so much of your life basing yourself on what you think other people think of you. Then you realise that maybe one of the purposes of life is not to care."

"Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it."

"Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it."

"37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime."

"That's what we're all looking for, the place where the work leads us."

"One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life."

"Life is an occasion...rise to it."

"I like to mimic my grandkids. I'm trying to understand the intensity of fixation on a leaf. Kids don't need anything else in their life."