Christoph Waltz Quotes

I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was stronger

If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

People often yearn back to more innocent times, but more and more, as I get older, I find myself hankering after more jaded days.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

I made so many mistakes when I was younger.

I wish I would have listened, when I was a kid, to my elders or people who had my best interests at heart, and then I wish I would have been more conscious at that age also.

Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.

The older you get, the better you realize you were.

I'm older, and I wish that a lot of things that I did in my life, I didn't do, but I'm able to talk about it.

Maturity gives us jealous eyes. We look with jealousy on the younger woman because she doesn't know as much now as we do, and, oh, what we could do with our wisdom and her face.

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?

I don't know whether when I was 20 years old or 25 years old if somebody would have come along with incredible wisdom whether I would have really listened.

When you get older you have to be careful about always saying, "Things aren't as good as they used to be." But it's hard not to.

Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.

The years that pass eat up your margin for error until there is no margin left. The mistakes you make are no longer flaws of inexperience, they are flaws of character. To be young is to be constantly on the precipice of perfection—just a little further and you’ll get there—but you never get there, and suddenly you’re old, and find yourself in a permanent state of imperfection, which you must reckon with.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

My sense of loneliness was not particularly great until I reached sixty. From that time on, I would have given an ex-king's ransom if I had been able, in my youth to seduce a lady into thinking of me as a handyman and provider around the house.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

I feel old and vulnerable. I now realise that I knew nothing and know nothing, but back when my career was beginning, I thought I was a man when, in fact, I was a dewy-eyed boy who'd not seen an avocado or eaten a tomato.