Where I go, where He takes me, that’s where I need to spread the love of God. Because people’s souls are dying. My soul was dying. And He saved me.
If I feel the role is not going to demand anything out of me, I don’t do it. Either it has to be a terrific role, or the director has to be someone I am dying to work with. Or the costar has to be someone I really look up to.
I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.
There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying.
When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.
The ‘New Yorker’ asked me to shoot a story on climate change in 2005, and I wound up going to Iceland to shoot a glacier. The real story wasn’t the beautiful white top. It ended up being at the terminus of the glacier where it’s dying.
The comic page is dying; I didn’t want to go with it.
I want to live forever, and I know I won’t. I’m not afraid of dying. I’m only afraid of one thing: not being able to raise my kids.
It could safely be said that Iraqis are dying at a faster clip since the American-led invasion and occupation than they did during the last decade of Saddam Hussein’s rule.
I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is.
People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.
I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.
Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.
Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.
If I was still at school, I’d be looking at Britney Spears and dying to be her.
Stage performing is a dying art form.
Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone’s got to take care of all your details.
One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you’re a star you’re dead already. You’re embalmed.
I always liked acting, but it was not that I was dying to become an actress. It just happened, and I am enjoying it.
I wasn’t into tapping when it began dying down. Ever since I started, it’s been alive for me. I just want to keep on dancing. I want to do it all.
Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.
Why wouldn’t I like to walk into a room full of people who are dying to hear everything I say?
It’s fashionable to speak about vulnerable populations in medicine and public policy, but it’s harder to find a more vulnerable population than those who are dying.
A closed mind is a dying mind.
Dying is easy; comedy is hard.
I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don’t know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.
My politics of optimism and hope still casts its lot with the Democrats – in the optimistic hope that the dying embers of its status as the party of our better angels, one that took risks for social justice, can still be fanned into a flame. But I’m an old man, born in 1969.
Oh, I’m dying to play Donald Trump someday, just because he’s an unbelievable character. I’m a character actor; that’s what you look for: outsized human beings.
Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
I do not believe that we can stop perfecting new ways of dying until we have found new ways of living. Every new life-way ought to prevent a new death-way.
Write as if you were dying.
Our planet is dying. Whales will be extinct before we ever get to know them. They say these creatures are so intelligent. They may disappear from the face of the Earth before we know them, and that is a great tragedy.
I’m a very traditional person. The tattoos are about my grandmother dying and they tell the story about my mother and father, my brothers and my sister, my kids. It’s pretty much a family tree on my arm with my life in football too.
People – and dogs – are dying to be trained.
Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
A song like ‘Shooting Star’ – the thought process behind writing that song was that I looked around and thought, ‘Wow, there’s a lot of people dying at that time in the music business.’
We give antibiotics to people when they’re dying or when they’re not well; that’s acting God. I mean, acting God is using the tools of creation to try and improve human life, human existence. I don’t think that that’s a huge problem.
I have always felt the basis of everything in life is sexual, and I will maintain that to my dying day.
Boy, if anyone wants to get visited from an alien, it’s me. I’m dying, and I’ve been sending out that invitation to the universe ever since I was a kid. I don’t believe in little green men. That’s collective neurosis of society. So I don’t believe that.
I’m dying to do a ‘Gambit’ movie with Channing Tatum.
I fell in love with the piano. I knew it was me. I was dying to play.
I often wonder, with my hand on my heart, if ‘The Dying Hours’ was made into the biggest movie franchise in history, would I pick up my pen again? Wouldn’t I be happier spending the rest of my life travelling around with my wife?
We spend billions on marginal and often unnecessary procedures on people who are in the final dying process, yet we leave millions of Americans out of the health insurance system, and America’s kids have the worst dental health in the developed world.
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
It’s very important that we do show appreciation for those who go to work in raising awareness. You know, Tourette Syndrome is not well known. There’s not a lot of government money and research in it. But people are dying inside every day because they’re suffering with it, and I think word needs to get out.
When I’m dying, I want to think I did what I felt was best for the words I was writing. This may mean, at any time, that I won’t be publishable anymore.
Of course, it’s no fun getting old and getting sick and dying; we all know that’s coming, and it’s a bore.
If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.
When I was a kid, I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn’t go out of our house for a whole year. I refused to step out of the door because I thought something would happen. I had all these compulsive thoughts or whatever, and my head was really messed up.
What I question about the afterlife is how many people just accept it and don’t question it, because I think living for an eternity would be much worse than dying.
My mother, who was radiant, young, and beautiful even as she lay dying, heard voices and saw visions, but she always managed to make friends with them and was much too charming to hospitalize even at her craziest.
I still remember, at the age of 12, learning that segregation had been permitted only a couple of decades before I was born and that a woman’s right to vote was not even a century old. But it was great Americans who stood up, some dying for the cause, to make our country better.
Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.
I don’t think there’s any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taking risks for.
Celebrity is this thing that’s unattainable. This unattainable lifestyle. This unattainable social status. But there’s nothing more commonplace than dying from hot sauce.
It was really difficult to tour on ‘Psychopomp’ for a year and do the press cycle and talk to people three or four times a day about my mom dying.
