Polly Bergen Quotes

By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life.

If I'm dancing, or teaching, or having a family I would want to live life to the fullest as possible.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?

My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.

I think there's something that happens at 40 where you settle into your own skin and you stop caring what people think - you realize life is a gift from God and you want to live it to the fullest.

I can't imagine life without singing.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

No matter what you achieve, what you want to aspire to be, or how famous and powerful you become, the most important thing is whether you are excited about each and every moment of your life because of your work and people around you.

Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it.

I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don't feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.

When you're at a certain point in your time - age, that is, when you're older - you start to realize that, actually, what you leave behind you does count, and so you start to become fundamentally aware of your own destiny, which sounds very grand. It's not grand at all, actually.

I do what I love to do, what I choose to do.

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

The thing is, when you see your old friends, you come face to face with yourself. I run into someone I've known for 40 or 50 years, and they're old. And I suddenly realize I'm old. It comes as an enormous shock to me.

I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing.

If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.

I carry on singing because I love it. The closer you are to the end, the more you understand how important it is.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.