Lif Quotes

(on Errol Flynn) I had a very big crush on Errol Flynn during "Captain Blood." I thought he was absolutely smashing for three solid years, but he never guessed. Then he had one on me but nothing came of it. I`m not going to regret that; it could have ruined my life.

I hope before too long to be sharing news of my good health and recovery, ... Now, more than ever, I feel Chris with me as I face this challenge. As always, I look to him as the ultimate example of defying the odds with strength, courage, and hope in the face of life`s adversities.

(his films) mean different things to different people. Some mean more or less the same things to a large number of people. It`s okay. Just as long as there`s not one message, spoon-fed. That`s what films by committee end up being, and it`s a real bummer to me...Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.

My face is all messed up and I`m covered in scars! Just look at me, I have parts of me that aren`t perfect at all. I appreciate that people think I`m this big heart throb film star, but movies are designed to make you look much better than you are in real life.

(From a taped announcement concerning his having symptoms of Alzheimer`s disease): "For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience. I can part the Red Sea, but I can`t part with you, which is why I won`t exclude you from this stage in my life. ... For now, I`m not changing anything. I`ll insist on work when I can; the doctors will insist on rest when I must. If you see a little less spring to my step, if your name fails to leap to my lips, you`ll know why. And if I tell you a funny story for the second time, please laugh anyway."

It`s pretty exciting, ... It feels good for me that my wife has something other than me and the children to handle now, really something of her own that she can enjoy. I enjoy playing baseball and that`s my job, and now she has something, too, that fulfills her life other than the kids and I.

It was quite a heady time. Living in a guesthouse in the hills and just having a crazy life. And I think that getting there and then getting divorced, all those things that are part of life, they keep these questions coming up: what are you doing with your life and why?

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

It`s pretty exciting, ... It feels good for me that my wife has something other than me and the children to handle now, really something of her own that she can enjoy. I enjoy playing baseball and that`s my job, and now she has something, too, that fulfills her life other than the kids and I.