#life

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet. ↗

— James Dean

#actor #experiences #fact #feet #his

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication. ↗

— James Dean

#dedication #duty #express #full #grasp

I've been lucky enough - well, maybe unlucky enough - to have had a lot of friends who have had their ups and downs. And for an actor, that's good. Life experience in any regard is good. So I've seen a lot and I've had my own experiences. ↗

— Chris Evans

#any #been #downs #enough #experience

To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#private #private life #public #public life #right

Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion. ↗

— Ruth St. Denis

#bodies #fact #highest #highest wisdom #itself

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it! ↗

— Daniel Dennett

#brain #cling #coral #eats #finds

I don't really think about doing something kind, I think there's just a way to conduct your daily life with compassion to other people. ↗

— Kat Dennings

#compassion #conduct #daily #daily life #doing

I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back. ↗

— Patrick Dempsey

#california #grown #headed #i #important

We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it! ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#dignity #enough #exclamation #life #live

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ↗

— John Dewey

#itself #life #preparation