Nina Dobrev Quotes

As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?

I wish I'd lived in New York in my early twenties. Or learned to speak more languages at a young age. I didn't do either.

I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.

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

I, like a lot of people who are creative, need to step away. I can't have stuff to write about if I don't have a life. If I talk to people, hang out with my friends and hang out with my husband, I feel like I have better things to bring to the table.

I don't know what better teenage life you could get than going around the world doing what you love to do.

I do not regret one moment of my life.

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.

I think when we shot 'Tokyo Drift' I was a little too young to really understand what made Han who he is, and then I got older, and you start to make a little bit of money, and you realize that money will never buy you happiness.

Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.

I regret waiting until my mid-twenties to really start seeing the world. I think I should have taken more risks when I was younger and worried less about being ready to grow up.

I did irresponsible things when I was young and irresponsible.

If I could travel through time, I wouldn't go back and change anything in my life, because I'm delighted with the way it's turned out.

I have no regrets, I've had a fantastic life, travelled the world.

I think all my life's story is condensed in my face. It is neither innocent nor coy. It speaks volumes.

I think you have to experience life and then pull certain experiences into your act and your character's life, whoever you play, so you're full.

I don't regret a single day of my life.

A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.

I think that there is no doubt that every experience you have in your life, whether it's playing a character or something else, you bring that to the work.

Everyone journeys through character as well as through time. The person one becomes depends on the person one has been.

You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.

We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art...what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered. I think I don't regret a single "excess" of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

There's only one why. You only have one why, and your why is fully formed by the time you're 17, 18 or 19years old, maybe even earlier. The rest of your life are simply opportunities to either live in or out of balance and the career choices we make and the decisions we make in our lives either put us in balance with our why, which makes us happy, fulfilled and inspired. Or it puts us out of our why, which makes us frustrated, stressed out and sometimes we fail.

Traveling makes men wiser, but less happy.