Rob Reiner Quotes

The truth is that you can spend your life any way you want, but you can spend it only once.

You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.

My rule is: the second you find yourself doing something you hate, quit doing it.

I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves, 'where do I want to be today, where do I want to be tomorrow, and where do I want to be in a hundred years?' We all have clear answers to those questions. We only have so much time. It's a real shame if we don't spend our lives trying to do that.

Our life is our life. If we waste it, we're fools.

We’re on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what’s more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced—or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

- I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do! - Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt.

If I had my life to live over... I wouldn't have time.

Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?

The most important thing in my life is to live my life and enjoy it - to do what I think is right and what I think is good.

By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?

I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.

I often wonder, with my hand on my heart, if 'The Dying Hours' was made into the biggest movie franchise in history, would I pick up my pen again? Wouldn't I be happier spending the rest of my life travelling around with my wife?

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

If you're successful at a young age, no matter the profession, there has to come a time when you reevaluate everything, what it means to you. 'Is this what I want to do for the rest of my life?'

It suddenly struck me - I'm 70 years old. I wonder if I could possibly end my life the way I started it: doing the most joyful thing I ever did, which is to sing.

Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.

I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.

The questions I'm asking myself are, 'What makes me happy? Where do I want to be? What will make me happy at 50, 60 and 70?'