Quotes from Eric Roth

It's a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what's changed, is you.

When I met Richard Leakey, I thought, 'This is the most charismatic man I've ever met.' He has no legs. He lost them when his plane was sabotaged. But he's an interesting, sort of narcissistic guy.

Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

It's a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what's changed, is you.

You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.

Benjamin, we're meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?

For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

You never know what's coming for you.

Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.

I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you`re proud of, and if you find that you`re not, I hope you find the strength to start all over again.

She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody.

I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

It's funny how sometimes the people we remember the least make the greatest impression on us.

Some people, were born to sit by a river. Some get struck by lightning. Some have an ear for music. Some are artists. Some swim. Some know buttons. Some know Shakespeare. Some are mothers. And some people, dance.

If only one thing had happened differently—but life, being what it is—a series of intersecting lives and incidents, out of anyone's control.

I'll be looking for patriotic, honorable, bright young men from the right backgrounds to manage the various departments. In other words, no Jews or Negroes, and very few Catholics, and that's only because I'm a Catholic.

Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can.

Benjamin, we're meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?

The wish fulfillment of growing younger is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be. You have new problems that arise which you are not anticipating and you deal with the same problems you would deal with if you were ageing normally: what is the end of life about? What have I accomplished?

You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.