Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

You can't tell the story of the thousands of people whose lives were destroyed by Bernie Madoff because there are thousands of stories. What you can do is to start inside, and that's the picture that you do, which becomes like a Greek tragedy in that regard - that whole collapse. ”

I can play younger. It's better to be playing younger because you've got that experience, and it's hard to play older when you're younger. ”

All my foster homes were very good to me. But it's still not a very nice experience. It's only when you're older, you realise: we were on our own in there. As kids, you don't know what's happening. You're here. Then you're in the next house. But the families were all very good to us. ”

Foster care was a big part of my life. ”

It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America. ”

I think everybody can identify, you know, with this sort of struggle to decide for yourself who you are, you know, and what your place in life is. ”

I think it's really important to remind, reinforce people that their lives have value, you know? That their lives have worth. ”

Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death. ”

I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office. ”

I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life. ”