I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.
I have ridiculously bad eyesight, but I have learned to live with an impressionistic view. Life is a Monet painting. I wander around enjoying myopia.
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
Happiness is largely an attitude of mind, of viewing life from the right angle.
As a society, when you have your mortality slapped in your face, it changes you.
When you're waking up every day, and it's all about you, I don't consider that to be a way to live your life if you can help it. I think people who know me know that I find time to enjoy myself and not take life - or myself - too seriously at all.
Absolutely I view life from a different perspective than I did in my past. It's rewarding, to me, because it actually lets me know that I am growing up.
You can't always look at life as a miserable thing.
I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.
Don't take life so serious. It ain't no-hows permanent.
Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is.
Life is not to be taken seriously.
It's OK, by the way, that it takes 10 years for you to make "money." Since when was it that being in your mid-30s to make a few hundred thousand dollars or a million dollars was like egregiously unfair? I think we have to have a sense of perspective here. We're all going to live into our 80s or 90s. So what is everybody in such a rush for?
Not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.
The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
I think it's important to look at the world as a bigger place than just the bubble that we live in. It's so easy to get caught up in things of a trivial nature.
Anybody who travels knows that you're not really doing so in order to move around - you're traveling in order to be moved. And really what you're seeing is not just the Grand Canyon or the Great Wall but some moods or intimations or places inside yourself that you never ordinarily see when you're sleepwalking through your daily life.
It's important to remember that life is a joke, and that outlook grants a lot of perspective, but I don't think comedy should change and become political due to other things. It should just laugh at that cosmic joke that life is all the time.
Before my cancer was diagnosed, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn't know when. After the diagnosis, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn't know when. But now I knew it acutely.
When I was younger, I took life much more seriously.
Losing two cousins who were really close to me altered my perspective on life massively.
