"I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important."

"I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never."

"You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today."

"People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life."

"Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way."

"To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life."

"I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants."

"I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day."

"This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it."

"He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had lived for a long time with foreigners in South America."

"But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth? If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all."

"His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years."

"The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known."

"They are the we of me."

"I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick?"

"I m a stranger in a strange land."

"Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones."

"The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing"

"With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive."

"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips."

"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations."

"Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet."

"By the living jingo, she was all of a muck of sweat."

"There is no wealth but life."