“Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 211 of 303
“It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it? Yes. It does. There's a lot of things look better at a distance. Yeah? I think so. I guess there are. The life you've lived, for one. Yeah. Maybe what of it you aint lived yet, too.”
“He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.”
“Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins.”
“All I have learned about horses is that they are beautiful overrated creatures and are all born quite insane.”
“Shortcuts aren't always.”
“It's easier to see the mistake on someone else's paper.”
“The path you're on looks different when you turn around.”
“One's dream is constantly evolving, rising and falling, changing course. This happens in every job, but because I have worked in comedy for twenty-five years, I can probably speak best about my own profession.”
“I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.”
“I think as you get older, you find you can play more things because you're moving to a different category. You play a certain thing as a younger man, playing action roles like I did. Then I moved out, and I kept trying to do different things all the time.”
“You change as the years go by. The more knowledge you get, the more things change in your life and circumstances change.”
“When you think of a particular director, you think you would have liked to be with them on one particular film and not necessarily on some other one.”
“Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less. Unfortunately, there's a style of acting going round, especially with the younger actors, where they talk without even moving their lip. Maybe it's because my hearing probably isn't what it was 40 years ago but I'm sitting there going "What did they say"?”
“I think there's an important difference between the newspaper and a magazine. I view the role of the magazine as providing the deeper reporting and the thoughtful analysis to help you make sense of why that news is important.”
“The audience might not be the size of Facebook, but how much time can you spend online and think, 'What did I just learn?”
“you may fume and fidget as you please: but this is the best plan to pursue with you, I am certain. I like you more than I can say; but I’ll not sink into a bathos of sentiment: and with this needle of repartee I’ll keep you from the edge of the gulf too; and, moreover, maintain by its pungent aid that distance between you and myself most conducive to our real mutual advantage.”
“Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.”
“All anyone is to anyone is a series of days.”
“Life is, to some extent, an extended dialogue with your future self about how exactly you are going to let yourself down over the coming years.”