When it comes to the work, I'm excited to see what people think. When it comes to the private life, that's when I don't pay attention.
In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.
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.
If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet.
Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.
Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work.
I worked with him for ten years until he died and it was the most wonderful time of my life.
Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.
My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely.
I went through a pretty big David Bowie period when I was younger, and that has affected me profoundly in my life and my work.
I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.
I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
There are those that live to work and those that work to live, both are captured, trapped within zoomanity. Creating the life you NEED begins with you, no one, nothing else, you. The biggest fear man can have is facing himself, taking control of his ...
The day you are not solving problems or are not up to your butt in problems is probably a day you are no longer leading. If your desk is clean and no one is bringing you problems, you should be very worried. It means that people don't think you can s...
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in th...
But if a role model in her seventies isn't layered with contradictions - as we all come to be - then what good is she? Why bother to cut the silhouette of another's existence and place it against our own if it isn't as incongruous, ambiguous, inconsi...
Letter from Van Gogh to Gauguin: “Ah! my dear friend, to make of painting what the music of Berlioz and Wagner has been before us... a consolatory art for distressed hearts! There are as yet only a few who feel it as you and I do!!! [Letter 739, Ar...
A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the origin of aggression, the origin o...
Celine: I had worked for this old man and once he told me that he had spent his whole life thinking about his career and his work. And he was fifty-two and it suddenly struck him that he had never really given anything of himself. His life was for no...
Life is short, so live it full! Know that the work that the Lord has begun in you, He will finish it. So, honor Him today with your gift to Him, "steadfastness/endurance to live His work, and not yours. It may get tough along this journey where the e...
