Elizabeth Banks Quotes

One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'

The world changed. Hollywood changed. I think we've lost something, and we don't know how to get it back.

I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?

Whether it's my age or my misspent youth, sometimes I forget whether I've worked with somebody or not.

Like many confused and evolving humans, I live in constant danger of transformation.

If science can help us have the same quality of life we enjoyed when we were much younger, we should grasp it with both hands.

Anything is possible in the life of a man if he lives long enough. Even maturity.

I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then

We live in an age where the rate of change has been colossal. Colossal. Almost every week there's some transformation of some kind, whether technological or political or scientific, whatever. And I think it's bewildering to human beings to live in a time when they can't take anything as fixed - when everything is shifting and changing all the time.

The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old.

I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other.

I don't want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like I was then, and me as I am now, and me like I'll be in the future. I want to be me and nothing but me. I want to be crazy as the moon, wild as the wind and still as the earth. I want to be every single thing it's possible to be. I'm growing and I don't know how to grow. I'm living but I haven't started living yet.

Sometimes life is so crazy, you have to go through something to be able to find out what you're supposed to talk about next, and I think that's what happened to me.

IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids out to sea,where every bit of shattered boat sinks to the bottom. An alligator lifts its head and swallows the ocean, then the ocean floor becomes a desert covering the alligator in sand drifts. Changes do happen. I do not know how, or what remains of what has disappeared into the absolute. I hear so many stories and explanations, but I keep quiet, because I don’t know anything, and because something I swallowed in the ocean has made me completely content with ignorance.

Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing.

You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet.

To tell you the truth, the older I get, the less I know. I keep meeting people, both older and younger, who seem to have accrued so much more knowledge or expertise or certainty about who they are and the jobs they do. I just marvel at it.

I wake each day and try to see what I might do that is of some value and joy. It's a strange life. I don't know how long it'll go on. I don't look past tomorrow. Anything beyond tomorrow seems like hearsay. Or fairy tales.

We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the way our parents or ancestors did. Enchantment alters with age, and with the age. We know a dozen Arthurs now, all of them true. The Shire changed irrevocably even in Bilbo's lifetime. Don Quixote went riding out to Argentina and met Jorge Luis Borges there. Plus c'est la même chose, plus ça change.

How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.

Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.

Who ARE You?" This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.

I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality.