Keisha Castle-Hughes Quotes

When suddenly your focus changes, you see the years going by and it's an extra reminder that you don't want to live life with any regrets.

Don't lie - when you are 105 years of age - on your deathbed, thinking, 'I should have done a few things!' I would like to think I tried as much as I could.

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I've never once resented the fact that I couldn't go out because of my kids.

If I had to do it over, I wouldn't change a thing.

As a dad I'm emotionally dedicated but I'm not 'figuring out their life plans'. But of course as I'm telling them about the rights of wrongs I'm thinking back to what I was like at their age.

I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

It's been a funny life for me. Sometimes I feel I haven't done a lot of living.

I have a real no-nonsense dad who taught me how to be resilient at a very young age.

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.

I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.

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

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

I don't regret any decisions I've made in my life.

I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out.

You get to a point in your life where you go, 'I don't remember what I did.'

I don't know how you get to be 40 without having a whole bunch of regrets.

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

Pursue your dreams, but don't be afraid to slow down or jump off the train when your heart calls you to tend to things that last - love, marriage, babies, and happy kids. You can always jump back on the train. It's your journey.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge yourself.

I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living.