Tony Gilroy Quotes

I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!

What do you want? What do you want your life to be? What do you want your testimony to be? Go for it!

Oh my goodness, do I aspire to be like Gisele? I just turned 23, I'm enjoying being young and focusing on my career.

I'm not scared of growing old, I'm just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do.

To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.

You're supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age.

Even as a kid in the Bronx, I wanted an adventurous life.

The world is full of opportunities, and I want to try as many as I possibly can.

I'm 23, so I'm not done with my life. But acting, definitely, out of what I've done so far, makes me feel the most alive and is very invigorating and thrilling. So I figured I might as well try it for a while.

I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to Hollywood and be an actor.' I didn't want to look back on my life and wonder, 'What if I had done this? Or I had done that?'

You know, when I was a kid waiting on the bus, I remember that was when I imagined my life. I imagined everything that I was gonna be when I grew up and I imagined all of these amazing journeys and amazing people I'd meet. Of course, all of it has kind of come to fruition.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.

I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.

I want to do everything in the world that can be done.

I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.

I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

You don't get old until you replace dreams with regrets.

I wanted to find something I was passionate about, something with the possibility of upward movement, and I wanted freedom. I need to be outside living life, not stuck in an office. I figured I could either be out selling condos in Miami, or I could move to L.A. and chase after that elusive actor's job.

I don't think I'll be making documentaries my whole life.

I want to explore a lot of things, do acting here and there.

I gave up the idea of having a career when I was 24. Sounds glamorous, but I've been doing things since then, and part of those adventures was to make films because I realised I was actually quite good at it and I enjoyed it.

The first year I was in New York, I met Martha Graham. She said, 'Well, Mr. Wilson, what do you want to do in life?' I was 21 years old, and I said, 'I have no idea.' And she said, 'If you work long enough and hard enough, you'll find something.'

Here's the truth. Your teens and twenties are your Plan A. At 50, you're assessing whether Plan B or Plan C or any of the other plans you hatched actually worked. Your sixties and seventies, they're an improvisation.

Personally, I'd like to visit every corner of the earth. But I don't know as I'll ever be able to accomplish that.