“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Fall (1956)
“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Homi J. Bhabha (1909–1966) 1909-1966, Indian nuclear physicist
As quoted in the "Homi Jehangir Bhabha" profile at the Vigyan Prasar Science Portal http://www.vigyanprasar.gov.in/scientists/bhabha/BHABHANEW.HTM <br class="br">Context: I know quite clearly what I want out of my life. Life and my emotions are the only things I am conscious of. I love the consciousness of life and I want as much of it as I can get. But the span of one's life is limited. What comes after death no one knows. Nor do I care. Since, therefore, I cannot increase the content of life by increasing its duration, I will increase it by increasing its intensity. Art, music, poetry and everything else … I do have this one purpose — increasing the intensity of my consciousness of life.
Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011) British-American actress
As quoted in "Michael Jackson: Elizabeth Taylor Honors her good friend" http://news-briefs.ew.com/2009/06/elizabeth-taylor-honors-good-friend-michael-jackson.html by Dave Karger, Entertainment Weekly (26 June 2009)]
Hans Zimmer (1957) German film composer and music producer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGPoJvQhhKk at 2:56
Hugh Prather (1938–2010) American writer
Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person
Mumia Abu-Jamal (1954) Prisoner, Journalist, Broadcaster, Author, Activist
"I spend my days preparing for life, not for death" The Guardian, Laura Smith (2007-10-25)
Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) American author
"Queen of the Black Coast" (1934)
Source: Conan the Barbarian Omnibus -The Original Stories
Context: He shrugged his shoulders. "I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not beyond death. It may be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Crom's realm of ice and cloud, or the snowy plains and vaulted halls of the Nordheimer's Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content."
“I am so tired of rearranging my life around what the stupidest people might do.”
Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian
The Golden Goose Special (1997)
Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
Source: Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter
Source: The Complete Poems