Life Quotes

In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can’t control a nine-year-old girl.

I’ve always gravitated towards people who are extreme. Whether its drugs, or kicking down doors. Normally, the people in my life had to escape to get back.

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It’s all crap.

The real meditation is how you live your life.

Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.

My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.

When I was a little kid it was my dream to go to drama school, but it was never something I thought would happen to me. I was a Jewish girl from North London and things like that don’t happen to Jewish girls from North London called Amy Winehouse.

This is your life – you must die by yourself, so for heaven’s sake, live for yourself and no one else.

If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice by depriving yourself of all that is not absolutely necessary for life.