Federico Fellini Quotes

The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all three.

Stop looking for your purpose. BE it!

We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.

If you are what you do, then when you don't, you aren't.

My trade and art is to live.

In order to do something you must be something.

Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist.

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.

I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

To be is to do.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

One must be something in order to do something.

I believe that life is about doing.

Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

You are -- your life, and nothing else.

We look at what we do to determine who we are.

In the end, it's about what you want to be, not what you want to have.

The ultimate question of who we are is set before us at all times and answered with every action.

If you believe something, you can have a morality that means something as well. You can feel recognized as an individual within the universe; it can give meaning to who you are.

Are You Living or Just Existing?" -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.

I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world and out. I want to keep being myself and mind the work that minds me. Work is not always a hard thing that looms over your years. Sometimes, work is the gift of the world to the wanting.

When you know your not going to die, you have to ask yourself... What's the highest and best use for myself.