Takeshi Kitano Quotes

I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction.

I worked with the world's greatest talents and then went home to the world's greatest woman. It was, and is, a great life.

I have so much satisfaction in my life. I have a beautiful wife and the great stimulation of an interesting career. I'm the most happy fellow that I know.

For the first time in my life I feel important. I'd like to have five babies.

I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.

I've been working so hard for the past eight years and I'm tired - but I'm also deliciously tired because what a wonderful life I've lived.

I still pinch myself that I had the career that I had.

There have been great things that happened to me.

I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

I am happy with what I've done.

I never could have planned this, and now I'm in my ideal situation career-wise and just sort of where I am in my life, and I'm super happy with how everything's going.

I have lived a great life. I am very happy.

My son gave me the permission to accept my success.

I'm happy with what I've achieved.

I'm always so proud of everything I work on. I love seeing it.

My brother told me he was very proud of me, of the business I have built, and that gives me joy.

I find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing to perfection entirely by myself. In the evenings, I would go into the hills and look down on my work, and I knew that it was good, and my heart was elated.

I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable.

I believe the relationships and emotions you experience when you have success are the things that last forever.

I still can't believe that I've achieved what I have. It's like I've lived a dream for about five years now.

I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.

I couldn't imagine my life being any more successful than it is now.

I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.

I'm proud - or really more thankful than anything - for all the work that I've gotten.