Anthony Hopkins Quotes

I played with Eddy Curry twice and in New York, the second time, he asked, 'Who are you?' My first to fourth year I was a different person. I started thinking big picture, that maybe I don't have all the answers.

The fact is that this conversation is going on at every level at every age, we're all going, "God, what a jerk I've been," "How could I have married that guy?" or "How could I have done this or that?" With time, this is the gift of being older, that you get to look back and say, "It wasn't all about them."

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.

You can't sing about the same things as you did when you were 20; it would be ridiculous to sing about, I don't know, being in the quad. You can't really write about mortgage payments or stuff like that... but you can talk about 'let's make the world a better place.'

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

Oh my gosh, I'd give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it's going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I've already forgotten.

Maybe in my 20s I was a little more lively. But I'm done with that.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

I was concerned about doing the right thing when I was a kid. I suppose as a child, you're a massive egomaniac, and you think that everything you do is going to affect the world.

Many years ago, I used to say, 'I haven't lived long enough to be great.' Now I don't say that.

As I got older, I realized that my life experience, what I really had, was always going to be more valuable than what I pretended to have.

With each year I experience, I become more relaxed. I know now what is important to listen to and what to ignore. You only get that with age.

As you get older, you grow and you revaluate.

Who am I to judge is what I say. I'm 90 years old, for crying out loud, and I don't sit in any chariot.

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

It's a good thing I learned some humility and perspective as I got older.

As we get older, things seem less important.

My dad would always say, "When you look at a photo do you see yourself last?"

The best thing about being 45 is not taking myself so seriously. Do I miss the package I came in at 25? I do. Gravity is no one's friend. Yet the perspective I've gained is so worth the wear and tear. What would have mortified me at 25 is now simply fodder for a funny, relatable story. Also? I was a waitress at 25, and now I'm an author. Forty-five is definitely better.

It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.

I think it's important to remember that by the second half of our lives, we are meant to see in wholes, and no longer just in parts.

I was in my early thirties writing about my early twenties, so there was this way of seeing my younger self from enough of a distance to have perspective but also not to feel that I had to protect myself. My dreams for myself then would have undersold myself in a way.

When you have lived longer in this world and outlived the enthusiastic and pleasing illusions of youth, you will find your love and pity for the race increase tenfold, your admiration and attachment to a particular party or opinion fall away altogether.

Really you don't need more information. If you've lived twenty years, you probably have enough material for the rest of your life