This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.
There's moments when you have to make a split-second decision that will form you for the rest of your life.
Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.
Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.
If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life, there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.
In life, you get one choice over and over again. That is to take conditions as they are or take responsibility for changing them.
As actors we always say that once the person in a scene gets what they want, the scene is over. It's resolved. But life is never resolved - you're always in the process.
Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.
Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.
Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.