Ridley Scott Quotes

I think starting a cinema career late in life has more advantages than disadvantages.

I didn't start writing my own books until I was 40.

I came into my own, you might say, in terms of putting out my first record quite late in life. And yet there's some authors and photographers and even probably recording artists that didn't really hit their stride until their mid-50s.

I'm a late bloomer. Even in high school, everyone else was charging ahead, and I didn't come into my own until very late. I feel that's true in cinema, too. I didn't even start 'Metropolitan' until I was 37.

I think I was pigeonholed pretty early on. And I started late in my career. I was 33.

On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.

'Tyrannosaur's an arrival for me, but it's also the first step into a new career. I don't want to be moonlighting at this, like I have done with acting. Y'know, I think I've found my career at 37 years old.

I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before deciding that acting seemed pretty cool.

'Life Aquatic' was the first movie I did, and it's been an incredible adventure since then.

I never went to college when I was young and am looking forward to giving it a try... at age 65!

I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too.

I didn't do a movie until I was almost 30. I'm grateful for that because it gave me a chance to be an adult in the world and do work in the regional theater that very few people cared about. I loved it and I wanted to do that stuff.

I spent 12 years doing different things in film trying to figure out the story I wanted to tell.

When I started my filmmaking journey 17 years ago, I honestly didn't know what a documentary film was.

I was busy welcoming a new experience. I had never done a movie before.

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

I was 40 when I did my first movie.

I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.

It's been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type, and I'm finally getting to do what I really wanted to do.

I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.

I didn't plan to be a director until I was 35. For years I wanted to do anything but!

I didn't get into entertainment until I was like 31. I didn't star in a movie until I was 46.

I wrote my first song when I was 54 years old.

I've always been what they call a late bloomer.

I'm a late bloomer in music.