David Viscott Quotes

With time, everything changes. I know I'm not the same person who I used to be. I totally get that.

Everything changes with time. I am not so experienced enough to analyze what the people love in me.

Some age, others mature.

It's pretty strange because you have images of people in your head when you left, then you just think they're going to be the same when you come back, like time freezes. I have sisters and from the ages of 11 to 13 - it's a big change for girls.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.

Maybe we all change over time.

I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree.

I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we're going to have to define differently what I'm going to be. We're going to have to define my growing up differently.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.

Because I'm not the same today as I was in '58, or '59 or even '71.

It's the same as Keith Richards. People still ask him the same questions they asked him 30 years ago, even though he's a completely different person. And I'm a completely different person than I was 15 years ago.

You cannot have the same kind of character again and again in every season or every stage of your life. You change, people change.

Everyone changes throughout the years.

I'm not the same young man I was when I first got into music.

You kind of grow up and evolve in everything you do.

That's what just hit me: How you really can't have everything. You have to give up the old to get the new. You can't be the child and the mom at the same time. You can't be your young self and your old self at the same time. You can't know what you know now and feel the way you did then. You can't, you can't, you can't.

To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone.

Nothing changes until it becomes what it is.

Growing up takes longer than you think.

I think you get to a certain point in your life and where you grew up stops reminding you of when you grew up. Everything changes, everything metamorphosizes.

Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.