Actors' quotes about life and death

“We were born and we die. In between, I think we try to live as best we can.”
Olga Kurylenko

“If you're looking for longevity, you have to be a hard worker.”
Henry Golding

“I personally don't believe people really grow. They just learn stuff when they were a kid, and hold on to it, and that affects every relationship they have.”
Donald Glover

“You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?”
Sally Hawkins

“Death is just a part of life, you know? It's what makes all of life more vibrant. It's coming whether we want to accept it or not.”
Tessa Thompson

“The older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.”
Brittany Murphy

“I was a fourteen-year-old boy for thirty years.”
Mickey Rooney

“As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.”
Basil Rathbone

“It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.”
Jack Lemmon

“At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.”
Tony Curtis

“A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.”
Maurice Chevalier

“If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.”
James Dean

“The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.”
John Barrymore

“I suppose the only thing at 50 you can really start to look forward to is just total irresponsibility.”
Johnny Depp

“I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.”
Morgan Freeman

“My friends have named me the person they least want to do extreme adventures with, because I always seem to be very close to being part of a disaster. If a cat has nine lives, I think I've used a few.”
Leonardo DiCaprio

“The older you get, the more you've done.”
Debra Winger

“Boys in their twenties are a waste of time. They have nothing to offer conversationally; they're immature.”
Megan Fox

“When you turn 30, your life and your world view change. I remember feeling relieved - it was like I was seeing things in a deeper way.”
Carrie-Anne Moss

“Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.”
Bobby Cannavale

“After I die, I'll be forgotten.”
Al Jolson

“You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.”
Michael Landon

“I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.”
Victoria Principal

“I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.”
Natalie Imbruglia

“So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.”
Sir Sidney Poitier