Life Interpretation Quotes

And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn stories into.

I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory.

The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business.

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.

I think the most important thing for your life is the way you interpret things. Having an optimistic point of view is so important - your life will be so bright.

Life takes on the meaning that you give it.

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life.

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

I think many writers write because it's a convenient way to explain themselves to themselves. We take the chaos and the turmoil and the bullshit of our lives, and we make it into something that has a harmonious shape and sound.

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.

I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it.

If we reverse the outer shell and the essence--in other words, consider the outer shell the essence and the essence only the shell--our lives might be a whole lot easier to understand.

If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can happen to you. And that enables you to interpret the myth in relation to life, as well as life in relation to myth.

The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each bit of experience, letting none of it pass without interpretation and assimilation, a life full and satisfying - indeed a rival of the religious life.

Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.

'Brooklyn's Finest,' this is the kind of movie that's why I want to be an actor, to tell real-life stories. This is where I feel my job is, to interpret life.

Isn't that what writing is about? The constant attempt to understand the world?

The characters I portray are an extension of what I've seen, heard, or read, and so what you see in my films are how I understand life.

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.

What makes you good looking is how you are expressing yourself and that comes from how you are interpreting life.