Living Quotes

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.

The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

I am very grateful to make my living doing what I would do for free.

My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

We are all, right now, living the life we choose.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

I'm not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I'm just living my life.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say.

I have been writing since I was about 20, and at first I wrote in secret and never showed anybody. I was very concerned about making a living, so I conducted.

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

There's a part of me that wants to be known and make a comfortable living but still be able to go grocery shopping. My overall idea of success is having people I want to work with want to work with me.

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest.

Your man Flavor Flav is living!

Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.

A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.

I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.