Hideo Kojima Quotes

I suppose if I had my time again I would refuse it and stay at Fulham because I thoroughly enjoyed my time there, and secondly I would have taken it on my own terms.

Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.

I can't help but be thankful, and really appreciate everything I have been through, good and bad, because it got me here!

I'm always thankful for the stuff I went through and thankful for the people I've met, and I'm thankful even for some of the bad times because all of it helps get you to wherever you are in your life.

We need to look back sometimes and realize the past taught us to appreciate our future.

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.

I am very thankful that I have lived the life I have lived. I am thankful for my Graves' disease, and I tell people, if I had my whole life to live over, I would have it, because it has really made me into the person that I am.

I don't know if I would do this if I had to start over again.

There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.'

In a weird way, when I was looking back, I didn't know I was going to be a director until I was.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.

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.

If I was starting off now, I would probably have taken one or two different turnings along the way.

I think sometimes in life we rush and only later look back and say, 'Wow, that was something pretty cool that I did,' and we realize we should have been more aware while it was happening.

I feel that I've worked with a lot of interesting people, and I have no regrets. I'm just curious about what I might have done if I'd had people in my life then who did explain what the publicity game was.

I learn more with every job, and I'm very thankful for where I am.

Well, I'm grateful for all the experiences that I've had.

I think every one of us, in life, have some sort of moment that has happened that we wish we could have done differently or that we wish could have had a different outcome.

So many people have touched my heart and made an impact on my world. I'm thankful for every lesson and learning experience.

I try not to look back on my career.

There are many things that, if I have to relive, maybe I will do it another way. But I would not like to look back and think what I have not been able to.

I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first.

Little Zac had it easy - but he didn't realize he had it easy, so he took it for granted. I think going through 'Hairspray' and other projects helped me learn about the business and life in general.

My father said that I could always become an actress, but I couldn't go back to college later in life. So I had to first finish my education, and then I could do what I wanted. At the time, I was not pleased, but now, I can't thank him enough. My parents were absolutely right.