Ray Winstone Quotes

I'm not into watching stuff I did last week, let alone three or four years ago.

I can barely remember what I was like 36 years ago when I was 21 years old.

There is a sense of melancholy attached to seeing images of yourself from a different era, especially when you see a picture.

It's very shocking for me to see pictures from my win here in 2008. I aged.

Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened?

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me.

You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.

I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie. You're sitting here watching a movie. And I like that. It appeals to me intellectually, and also in a way I can't even explain.

In 1974, I first met Carl. I was 25 years old. I am 51 now.

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

It could be seen as narcissistic to have your own museum, but for me, it's such a long time ago - I have perspective. That young man in the funny clothes - he's almost a stranger, so I can tell his story.

I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.

I feel different than I did three years ago, in The Cider House Rules.

People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation?

I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned.

We carry our younger selves with us our whole lives, and we can measure out of lives by music we've loved or icons we've loved.

My position has always been that the way people age and the signs that we show of aging is nature's way of tattooing. It's natural scarification, and the life you lead gives you the symbols and the emblems of your life, the road map you followed.

Watching the dailies and then watching the... episodes, it really hits you: 'Damn, I did that?' I must have been crazy to get into those situations.

I look at photos of the Sochi Olympics - even though it sometimes seems like it was just yesterday - that photo doesn't even look like me. It looks like a child. I don't even recognize myself.

I haven't watched 'Half Baked' in 17 years, since I was editing it. It's like looking at an old picture where you have bad bangs or something.

I'm not a very nostalgic person. I don't really look at the past and summon up regrets, or self-congratulations, it just is not a mechanism that operates very strongly in me. So I neither have regrets nor occasions for self-congratulations.

For me, music was an age/time/place thing. One day I woke up and realized I was done. That was many years ago.

Simultaneously I am myself, the child I was, the old man I will be.

That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.