Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.
You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that's based on religion.
I've always been a pretty private, quiet kind of person and so I haven't had to change my life really at all, I don't think.
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe.
This is the best night of my life. And it's going to get better.
When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.
I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do.
Maybe when I'm 75 and living in the south of France, after everyone I want to bitch about is already dead, then I may want to talk about my life in Hollywood.