Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.
Every minute you spend in your life is either spent bringing you closer to your goals or moving you away from your goals.
I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.
I spent the first 18 years of my life in the pastoral town of Vernal, Utah, in the shadows of the Book Cliffs and the Uinta Mountains.
I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.
I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?
I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to.
I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C.
At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.
As I said, I spent most of my adult life thinking I didn't have a vote, and therefore that what I thought didn't matter.
I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.
A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.
It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it.
If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.
I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.
I acted in theater and I took film classes when I was 12 and just obsessed over it. I loved it and spent hours and hours in the film studio learning and watching.
I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.
I do love nature, but I don't suppose I'd spent more time in zoos as a child than anyone else!
If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'
I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold.
I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here.