Chris Hemsworth Quotes

It's hard to watch something you've done many years ago.

I realized I've spent all my life creating a past.

I tend not to look back on old clips of myself or look at things I wrote or listen to something from the radio 30 years ago: I remember them, but it feels like someone else.

It is always nice to reflect on how one started.

In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I'll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong - I should've opened the door more slowly.

My story. My past. I don't want to forget that. I want to think about it and be reminded of it so I can be thankful and appreciative of everything.

When I look back at the record and listen to it, I can sort of see where I was at when I was making it - these brief little moments, different places I was at emotionally.

We all have appointments with the past.

There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about yourself. Your connection to your former life is like a dream or delirium, and that person who you once were is merely a fond acquaintance, or a beloved character from a storybook. This is how memory becomes nostalgia. They are two very different things - the same way that a person is different from a photograph of a person.

It's been fascinating watching all those pictures of me with a lot more hair Jeremy, and looking very young. And we've all got things we've said, twenty, thirty years ago, indeed the whole world has changed since then.

I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?

That's a part of me going back to what I used to do.

I'm used to watching old movies of myself.

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

I don't look at my films or my old drawings much, so that was an interesting way to kind of reconnect with myself a bit.

It could be seen as narcissistic to have your own museum, but for me, it's such a long time ago - I have perspective. That young man in the funny clothes - he's almost a stranger, so I can tell his story.

Now you watch reality TV, you watch them in all those pools or Jacuzzis and I say to myself was I that stupid? But that was me then.

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.

I can barely remember what I was like 36 years ago when I was 21 years old.

I don't really look into the past too much.

My time in high school and college, more than 30 years ago, has been ridiculously distorted.

It is relatively impossible for people to have clear perspectives on themselves when they're in the midst of them, and often harder to recollect after the times, eras, and situations themselves have passed.

I didn't have a horrible life as a teenager but I was certainly depressed and had some pain in my life at that time. I've spent a lot of time thinking back on that time in my life. I think I am just fascinated by it.

I look forward and see myself look back.