Joan Fontaine Quotes

Well, anything can happen and it happened to me. I learned everybody has a story.

I never imagined my life would be the way that it has been for the past 30 years. I have had the best experiences a person can have-and the worst as well.

Sometimes life is so crazy, you have to go through something to be able to find out what you're supposed to talk about next, and I think that's what happened to me.

I've been through a lot in life, and had some ups and downs. It's what's led me to this day.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

I like that I've been through things, that when something happens, it resonates with something that already happened. It's not that things like loss are more or less painful. But they're deeper. I find that fascinating.

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'

You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.

It's been a funny life for me. Sometimes I feel I haven't done a lot of living.

I believe that every life is a collection of individual 'journey stories.'

You know, I've had my ups and downs.

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 am so enriched because so much has happened in my life. The way I can express myself is because of the life I have led. It's only when you experience life can you emote it.

And I went through a lot of detours and I took a lot of roads and things so yes, that's all there, but it's not meant to be shocking or telltale.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there's gonna come a time that you're gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.

I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.

Many things have been said about what happened, but I don't know either. Maybe someday. One thing I'm sure of is that all the things that have happened to me, good and bad, happy and sad, have made me what I am today.

I've had a lot of highs in my life and a lot of lows, some pivotal experiences, and in ways I feel like I've already lived a couple of lives.

Sometimes I think back to everything I've been through, and I wonder, 'Man, how the hell did I get here?'

I'm Italian; I take my time. We're not really fast. We're very slow. I had my first child at 40, my second child at 45, James Bond at 50. I'm so curious as to what's next!

Life is a blur when one is essaying different roles; it is so fulfilling.

I love how complicated we are. We are complicated because of what we've had and lived.

Everyone has a different life story. Things happen rapidly for someone, and things move slowly for others.

My films are always a reflection of where I am in my life.