Mae West Quotes

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

I just don't want to die without a few scars.

My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.

You live till you die, and that's the end of it. What good is your legacy when you are dead? I worry about being alive, selling work, having fun, moving and doing things when I am alive.

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

It's kind of good to do things while you're young.

There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young, the strong.

The good news is that even though we walk through this valley of death, we don't have to fear, at least not for ourselves! Unfortunately, there is no way to skip over the valley altogether, we must face death and the evidence of evil all around us. But there will come a day... And what a day that will be!

The paradox is, I can't miss the good things about my father while he is alive, but I will of course miss him... when he is dead.

I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.

You see, it's actually very good that a human activity is performed very close to death, because that's where life is. Life is, at its most valuable and most full, very close to the boundary of life.

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.

Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

It's very real, the narrow line between a night danced away and the potential of death around the corner.

To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.

You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.

I am often disgusted at hearing young people I know, declare that they are afraid of doing this or that, because they MIGHT be killed.

Even when you're 22 and you feel immortal, you know in your heart you're not.

It's always a balance, and sometimes I'm on the good side of that scale, and sometimes I'm on the bad side.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

It's good to step out of the box, but don't step out so far that you can't get back in.