My Life Quotes

I grew up as a photo nut. Every Christmas I would get a new camera. It's a huge part of my life.

~ Kevin Systrom

After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.

~ Donna Rice

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

~ Walt Disney

It's part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what's been printed about me.

~ Winona Ryder

I was very dramatic - very, like, 'It's never going to happen. My life is over at 16 because I'm not already famous. I'm not going to get my record deal. I'm not going to be able to sing for a living.'

~ Trisha Yearwood

I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.

~ Jodie Foster

I don't see myself as famous at all so I'm continuing my life as normal.

~ Ashley Madekwe

Kids will keep it real. If I've ever had in my life a great anchor, it's them. They get in your head, 'don't get too famous.' If you think you're really famous and think you're really hip, go hang out with your kids for an afternoon. That's about as earthbound as it's going to get.

~ Lionel Richie

Morocco is completely alive for me because I spent about a third of my life there. The first few times I went back to Casablanca, I walked through the streets and remembered how years earlier I had walked those same streets and prayed that a miracle would happen and I would leave and become famous.

~ Gad Elmaleh

I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.

~ Joseph Rotblat

I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.

~ Jet Li

I really feel like if they'd have let me just pace in the back of the classroom while the teacher was talking, I'd have done much better. I have to move. But you know, that's disruptive for the class, and as a result, there was a ripple effect of having to sit still that found its way into every aspect of my life.

~ Ryan Gosling

Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.

~ Antonio Tabucchi

My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.

~ Isabel Allende

I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which literally changed my life. It was the turning point.

~ Shiv Khera

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

~ Edvard Munch

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

~ Elie Wiesel

As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander.

~ John Andre

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

~ Edvard Munch

I feel if you believe in equality, you have to believe in it for everybody. And that's the way I've always lived my life.

~ Aisha Tyler

I'd never made a teen comedy in my life.

~ Harvey Weinstein

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.

~ Uma Thurman

But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.

~ Wayne Kramer

Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.

~ Tom Petty

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

~ Eminem

Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.

~ Lenny Kravitz

Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.

~ Ray Charles

If I hadn't had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.

~ James Hetfield

Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and I've been a guitar junkie ever since.

~ Johnny Marr

I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.

~ Byron Katie

As a cell contains a natural intelligence by which it fosters the healthy functioning of the body, I, too, have natural intelligence that fosters the perfect unfolding of my life.

~ Marianne Williamson

The people on my mum's side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life.

~ Evangeline Lilly

My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what's important to me.

~ Michael Imperioli

And that's where I'm finally at today - my life is about being with my family. This is what's important.

~ Aron Ralston

My family is my life, and I'll never lose that.

~ Jessica Simpson

When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. I withdrew to 'Cheers,' it was familiar in that it was family. It had a kind of realistic positiveness to it.

~ Bruno Heller

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson.

~ Dwayne Johnson

It's kind of major, learning to drive. I feel like it kicked up other stuff in my life.

~ Noah Baumbach

I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it.

~ Lee Child

I had a long-lasting love affair with the flavors from Japan and the hustling New York street vendors. And, of course, a life-changing return to Ethiopia has made huge impacts on my life in food.

~ Marcus Samuelsson