Jim Sarbh Quotes

Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.'

Our life is our life. If we waste it, we're fools.

It's pathetic to have regrets about fashion. Things to do with my life, yes, I have regrets there.

I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.

When I am older, I don't want to look at my films and not be happy about my choices.

I feel like I wasted my time in my twenties. When you are beginning to realise your potential you wish you'd realized it earlier.

I would shoot for long periods in Chennai, and now I wish I spent more time with my family. That is what matters the most.

I do think that people have moments of realisation in real life - even if it's on their death beds - when they suddenly think, 'Jesus - what did I do?'

If I had my life to live over... I wouldn't have time.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.

Redeem thy misspent time that's past, And live this day as if thy last.

It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.

I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been.

In the past, my aspirations were as arty as they could get, and I'm really embarrassed by it.

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.

I sometimes think how strange it is that I've got to do exactly what I want, and that is difficult to cope with. You have to remind yourself every few weeks: I'm making this film and this is exactly what I want to do. And suddenly you're happy again.

I want to write. I want to direct. I want to produce - I want to inhabit what I think it means to fully be an artist.

As I approach the end of my life, I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to be very superficial evaluations or opinions about the significance of one's life or one's work. I was never given to it when I was healthy, and I am less given to it now.

Yeah, there's probably been times when I'm watching cable and seeing there's like three movies that Jack's in and I'm sitting hogging a bag of Cheetos in my underwear and I think 'God, what happened to me? Why can't I be something special like Jack?'

Having a collection of regrets when you hit your 40s is part of the deal.

I stopped asking myself questions like what the value of my stock was and started asking more fundamental questions of life and death.

I know so many people who have tremendous regret in their life.

As you write about your life, there's a lot of things that you think about that you regret. It's interesting, because one of the things I regret the most is spending so much time focused on wrestling as opposed to focusing on my family.

As you get older, all those dumb clichés, they're all true. You only have a certain amount of time left, and you should only spend it doing the things that you want to do. It's all true.