I never thought I was particularly good looking. But when I see old photographs, I realise that I was. I do wish I had known that at the time because beauty is power. I didn't realise how lucky I was to be young, beautiful and in Hollywood. It didn't hit me. Every day I woke up, went to the film studio and just got on with it.
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
He doesn’t know to want for more because nothing in his life has been as much as this...on that night he thinks that no one has ever had so much and only later will he know he should have asked for more.
Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.
Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.
So much luck! I'm not putting myself down, I'm not saying I don't have talent - I must have, to have got this far - but I honestly believe that some of the greatest actors in America are tending bar and waiting tables and driving taxis, and it will never happen for them.
Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.
Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.
We all press buttons in relationships, in our dealings with people, without thinking what it really means. We all knock along without questioning what kind of situation we're in. We may often be in a very good one, but we don't even appreciate the good situations. We're lazy. Or we're scared. Or we just don't notice.
The failures that you beat yourself up over are the ones where you experienced warning signs and can connect the dots backwards after the fact.
I could have.What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have heppened but, didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.
I missed a whole cycle of childhood, but I've never used it as a device for self-pity.
I think the world sort of looks to the kids who have potential. These are the kids who are going to do something with their lives, who are going to do something for the world. I don't think it's malicious, but the other kids get lost from that point on.
A lot of the things I do are obvious things that for some reason are not done. I could never figure this out. Why don't people do the obvious?
The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.
There never were any roles for my kind of acting. That's the story of my life.
What a man does not know is greater than he.
My childhood taught me nothing... zero.
Most of us have two lives: the life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.
A lot of the ups and downs for me, especially the downs, I feel like it came in a lot of indirect ways because I didn't appreciate what I had.
