Living Quotes

So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.

I'm alive and I want to keep living.

My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.

I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch.

What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.

We will not play with inflation. We are living a delicate moment. President Obama spoke to me today about the high unemployment affecting the United States. In this crisis period, when the developed nations are not recovering, it's prudent to maintain the established inflation target.

There's no point in living in an alternate reality.

My son Cooper has just turned ten and the sarcasm fairy has already started to take up residence inside his body. Not only am I living with my mother - again! - but I've also got her mini-me to contend with.

Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.

You could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they keep going.

What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.

I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

We are living in a world where everything is based on security.

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.

Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

When you love food as much as I do, staying healthy is not easy. I mean, moderation, not deprivation. That's my new way of living. I always want more and that's just my life.

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

I've had women who move to the towns I'm living in, just pack up and move there, never even met 'em before, 'cause they heard I lived there.

I made a living being a background singer for years.

The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there.