In life, people sometimes make rotten deals.
We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.
The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
What am I going to do if I stop fighting? Study? Soccer?
You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.
The first thing I wanted to be growing up was a solicitor, because all the people around me needed solicitors! But I never really followed it up. Then I wanted to be a dessert chef because I liked the presentation.
I'm okay with the path that I'm on, but it's fascinating to think, 'I could've been a gay guy in Key West. I could be working at an insurance company in Lansing. But somehow, this is what's happening.'
Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
I didn't want to go to school for more than four years, and I didn't know what you did with a bachelor's in biology. So I switched over and got my degree in communications. I regret it now. It was one of the most idiotic things I ever did.
I think all people's lives are controlled by their decisions. You look at people's lives - it's not their conditions, it's their decisions. So everybody has a choice and every moment in your life you're making decisions.
Really, when you take a step back and you really know yourself, you're able to make better decisions.
The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form- an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.
I got married very young and put my career on the back burner for the most part because that's what you did in those days. I've never been a pushy, ambitious type of person anyway.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
It's a very, very exciting time, but you can't help thinking or not quite knowing how it's seen from the outside. You're constantly in a state of terror or regret, not quite knowing how things are going to pan out, or whether you've made the right decisions. But, maybe that's just what it's like. Maybe that's just the life of it.
Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we make every day, and those decisions are determined by our priorities.
I think it is important to be fearless in life. I have always made fearless choices. Some have worked; the others haven't.
My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.
Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.
It's very easy to keep putting off having a family if you enjoy your job, but you just have to get on with life.
Had I not been a choreographer, I would have become nothing more than a traffic cop or peon in an office.
I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.
When I left Oxford, I knew I wanted to act, but I was unsure how to go about it.
