Jose Carreras Quotes

When you're a confused 19-year-old filled with questions you can't even articulate and a kind of black rage that feeds at your heart from the moment you wake up in the morning, and you discover Marcus Aurelius' 'The Meditations,' that changes your life.

I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what I value, what I respect, what I hold dear.

I am sensitive to life, and somehow acting comes to me. I can't explain it.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

You know, once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself.

I think I've lived a pretty hard life. What I mean by hard is that... I've been kind of reckless with things. I'm a passionate person. I'm a super passionate person. I think there's definitely been sorrow in my life, good and bad. I think it comes through. I hope it comes through in my writing because to me that's what artistry is.

I think you see in people's eyes what they've been through. Anything in their lives shows up in their eyes.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.

As I get older, my emotions are closer to the surface.

Those who suffer profoundly are granted profound wisdom.

I want people to find their inner depth.

To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

I'm really excited to act again because when I started out, there was an innocent sort of perception of the world that was coming though me, and I think now through a lot of experience and life and understanding, I've come full circle to having a purer response to things. So my craft will be really interesting to work from this place because I think acting is about being in tune with yourself - or maybe the struggle to be in tune with yourself.

Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.

When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in your life.

When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.

It's interesting when you're old enough to take a new, objective approach looking at your parents, frame them in a way where you are actually taking yourself out of the equation and just look at the things that are true about their life.

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.

I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.

You change your life by changing your heart.

It's a very hard thing for all of us to accept ourselves at all the different stages - the horrible side, the wonderful side, the adorable side - and who you are as a grownup. And then to bring what you learned as a child to that grownup: that is the magic of creativity.