I was never afraid of failure after that because I think coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years the actual experience of course fades but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.

It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.

I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.

I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.

The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.

Since I was a child death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it but it's such a big thing that you can't.

I hit rock bottom but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.