Tacitus Quotes

You know you've been around a long time when your stuntman says, 'Yeah, my grandfather doubled you.'

In 50 years, I don't think you're gonna look back at 2006 and say, 'The good old days.'

Footballers do get a hard time, and there is a lot of generalization going on. When you get to meet players and know them as lads, it's always a bit different.

I mean the future has become old fashioned.

Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

I wanna do movies that in ten years time people will respect me for, as an actor. So if I do take two years off or three years off, the next movie I have that comes out you want people to go 'ooh, that's Frankie Muniz's new movie, it's gonna be a good movie cause he's in it.'

Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.

I wish people didn't just think of me in the '60s. I'm not any era.

I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.

Memory is often less about truth than about what we want it to be.

We tell only part of a man's qualities in his presence, and all of them when he is not present.

My last name is good and bad. It's great from an opportunity standpoint. The bad news is that you're prejudged often.

I think it takes a little bit of time for people to take you seriously.

Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.

Sometimes acting and politics make a very bad combination. I think that sometimes people take me less seriously in my work for the UN because I am an actor.

I still feel like I'm 19. We're old now!

There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.

Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future; Age knows her as the Dream.

There's no such thing, of course, as an old-fashioned gay guy. They're the most decadent people.

I don't know about timeless. I actually think most of what I do is completely modern, but universally modern. Who decides what timeless even means? Are the things that we consider timeless now going to, in fact, be considered timeless in 300 years? Probably not.

Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory.

I just realized the other day that Clara [in Aquarius] and I are now going to be apart year by year. She's still 65, and I'm 66 now. When you make a movie, it preserves you at a certain age, and it's so wonderful that Clara has preserved me at 65. People are talking about her age in a way that is positive and respectful, which is so wonderful.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.