I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'


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Army life don't agree with me.
EDDIE SLOVIK
The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too...
EDDIE SLOVIK
I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.
EDDIE SLOVIK
I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
EDDIE SLOVIK
Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.
EDDIE SLOVIK
Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.
EDDIE SLOVIK
Sports of every sort had always appealed to me.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER
Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER
I am not a labor hater.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER
The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER
The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy ...
EDDIE RICKENBACKER
It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER
I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER
Long practise in driving a racing car at a hundred miles an hour or so gives first-class training in...
EDDIE RICKENBACKER
I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER
Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, ...
EDDIE RICKENBACKER
I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, ...
EDDIE RICKENBACKER
Fighting in the air is not a sport. It is scientific murder.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER
I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER
Never count on the crowd to take care of you.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER
I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER
Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER
My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was bas...
EDDIE REDMAYNE
What I love about acting is trying things and screwing up, then trying again, all in this protected ...
EDDIE REDMAYNE
As someone who gets nervous in silences, I spill words rather than really think.
EDDIE REDMAYNE
They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they'...
EDDIE REDMAYNE
I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great...
EDDIE REDMAYNE
When you start out acting, you dream of getting an agent and getting a job. For years, you audition ...
EDDIE REDMAYNE
If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.
EDDIE REDMAYNE
Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to ...
EDDIE REDMAYNE
And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world want...
EDDIE REDMAYNE
I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory...
EDDIE REDMAYNE
As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about su...
EDDIE REDMAYNE
I'm trying to buy a house and set some sense of roots because otherwise you're constantly ch...
EDDIE REDMAYNE
If I do a film and have to get naked, that tends to dictate how often I go to the gym. Acting in ...
EDDIE REDMAYNE
I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordi...
EDDIE REDMAYNE
What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by rac...
EDDIE REDMAYNE
A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfl...
EDDIE REDMAYNE
That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear...
EDDIE REDMAYNE