In some cases I feel like they haven't appreciated enough that growing up doesn't mean boring and old and not full of life. I like to talk about that also.
I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.
Without obsession, life is nothing.
In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.
I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.
All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.
All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people.
There's something in the moment when you can make them laugh or cry and show and incredibly compassionate side of life. I find that a really exemplary way to live.
I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
I've worked with children all my life.
Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.