I just never, ever want to give up. Most battles are won in the 11th hour, and most people give up. If you give up once, it's quite hard. If you give up a second time, it's a little bit easier. Give up a third time, it's starting to become a habit.
When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.
The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and ...
Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
Mothers raise their daughters and let their sons grow up.
To pick up in a clumsy way is stealing, to steal in a skillful way is to pick up.
If you go to sleep with the blind, you'll wake up squinting.
The hardest person to wake up is the person who is already awake.
And I do. I do wonder, I think about it all the time. What it would be like to kill myself. Because I never really know, I still can't tell the difference, I'm never quite certain whether or not I'm actually alive. I sit here every single day. Run, I...
Vespers Little Boy kneels at the foot of the bed, Droops on the little hands little gold head. Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares! Christopher Robin is saying his prayers. God bless Mummy. I know that's right. Wasn't it fun in the bath tonight? The cold's...
Brian Taylor: Touch me and I will fucking shoot you. Stay where you are. Mr. Tre: I don't give a fuck about both you motherfuckers. I'm ready to die today. Fuck ya'll. Brian Taylor: This can go one of several ways right now. It is all about your atti...
O-Dog: Hey, man, who the fuck gonna be old out there at twelve o'clock at night, bitch? Shit, nigga, I'll smoke anybody, nigga. I just don't give a fuck. Shit. I'm gonna hit this shit, nigger. Caine: Look, all right, not me, all right? I'm not killin...
[Homer has asked Wilma into his bedroom to see what happens as he prepares for bed. After removing his hooks and harness, he 'wiggles' into his pajama top] Homer Parrish: I'm lucky. I have my elbows. Some of the boys don't. But I can't button them up...
Some people do need to grow up, but I don't think I'm there yet. I don't think I'm ready to do grown-up things and be a grown-up.
When you grow up on film, people sometimes have difficulties accepting the fact that you are growing up. They always imagine you younger.
Defeat is a transient perception but giving up is permanent. So never give up.
There are a lot of funny people in my family. Absolutely. There were a lot of jokes growing up around the dinner table, for sure. We didn't grow up in a creative family.
Growing up in the business you have to grow up very fast - you do have a different type of childhood, that has its benefits and it has its drawbacks.
I do this 'Walker shake.' You got to get knocked down many times, shake it off. Life is about ups and downs, and you got to keep standing up.
Showing up every day isn't enough. There are a lot of guys who show up every day who shouldn't have showed up at all.
Some people wake up fast. Some people wake up slow. I wake up dead.
