Most people get suicide, I guess; most people, even if it's hidden deep down inside somewhere, can remember a time in their lives when they thought about whether they really wanted to wake up the next day. Wanting to die seems like it might be a part of being alive.
What's the point of being alive," she said, "if you're not going to communicate?
The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine.
If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.
And now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive.
Sometimes, I feel like I can do anything, and, sometimes, I'm so alive, sometimes, I feel like I could zoom across the sky and, sometimes, I wanna cry.
The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were.
If you look up at the sky after falling down the blue sky is also today stretching limitlessly and smiles at me. . . I'm alive.
You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.
The problem of pretending to be alive.
Being of service to others daily makes me feel alive.
Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive - or praising you after you ain’t.
I like the 'Alive' part. Now I've made it. Wait until you see the roles I could take after this. You're going to see my gut hanging over, plus 22lbs. It'll be a whole new kind of sexy!
Writing a novel was like I had some Play-Doh to work with and could just keep working with it - doing a million drafts and things changing radically and characters appearing and disappearing and solving mysteries: Why is this thing here? Should I just take that away? And then realizing, no, that is there, in fact, because that is the key to this. I love that sort of detective work, keeping the faith alive until all the questions have been sleuthed out.
This is really a crazy idea, you know. It probably won't work, but that will be interesting, too. You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That's how you know you're still alive. Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.
In order to be a writer, first you must become an alive dead spirit.
New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.
The religions are the buildings or the institutions, the groups, but inside of that is what moves, is what's alive, is the beating heart of spirituality, and really, the heart's blood is the mystical experience. Not airy fairy vague mystical experience, but transformative, intimate experience that really touches your heart with love, and not just sex.
Gratitude is the proper response for the absolute astonishment of getting to be alive, and aware, and an essential part of this crazy, sprawling story.
I would switch roles with Madonna for a day. Or if Audrey Hepburn was still alive, Audrey Hepburn. I love Audrey Hepburn. She's one of my idols also.