Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. ”

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. ”

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. ”

But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone. ”

After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on. ”

In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors. ”

In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that. ”

Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life. ”

The life of an actor can be very enviable. ”

I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes. ”