Walter Matthau Quotes

If you have created an image of yourself at 13 and it is still with you at 17, it needs to be dropped.

I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.

I don't feel like a grandmother. I don't.

I love changing what I look like because I always feel super strange whenever I do watch something that I'm in.

When you say you're 40, you can't call yourself an ingenue any more.

I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for acceptance... my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don't really know how to react now that petition has been granted.

There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed.

Maybe it's that I'm naive, but I don't think of myself as an age.

My face changes when I wear make-up; I don't recognise myself.

I don't even know who that person was in the '80s. I see pictures of myself from back then and I don't even recognize myself.

In the past I'd always felt like 'the girl' in the show or the movie. On 'Friday Night Lights' there were a bunch of girls, and I was the woman. Initially there was a little struggle with my identity around that. But now there's a sense of ease.

Although I've watched myself making the transition from being a girl to being a woman, I still feel 15 years old. My reflection disagrees.

You get to be a certain age - I am 58 - and it becomes tricky not to become a caricature of yourself.

I am so used to seeing a blond in the mirror that I forget that for most of my life I was very dark. Old photos are still a bit of a shock.

I've become someone else, really, like a role model.

Toddlerhood, I just knew I was the farthest thing from a man. I've known that my whole life.

That's the great thing about being a teenager. You think you're a genius.

I think that I've always been a normal kid.

If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.

I was unrecognizable to myself; I saw my reflection in a window; I didn't know my own face.

"You look different now. Like a proper little girl," (said Gendry.) "I look like an oak tree, with all these stupid acorns," (said Arya.) "Nice, though. A nice oak tree. [...] You even smell nice for a change."

If you 35, 28, or 30 years old, and you decide you're gonna pick up a rag and start bangin', and you can look yourself in the mirror and you still feel like you're a man? That's cool, do your thing.

You start Saul, and end up Paul,' my grandfather had often said. 'When you're a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul - though you still Sauls around on the side.