Quotes About Time

Realistically speaking, I don't know how many more years I will want to be acting or will be invited to be.

You can speed up your life if you want to - that's easy. Winding down is what's hard.

For people on my side of the cubicle, the goal is always creativity. Spending your time overcoming corporate resistance to creativity - I just don't want to do that.

I spend most of my time reading non-fiction of all sorts. Then poetry. Then fiction to blurb. Then fiction I want to read.

I don't mind aging, I just don't want to be a day older.

It's a lot of power to give the director to edit his own stuff. It's also a time thing: you don't want to have to wait for the guy to finish shooting before he starts editing.

We've got to decide, how much replay do we want? Because if you start doing it from the first inning to the ninth inning, you may have to time the game with a calendar.

The idea of a youth-based society that you live in for a certain time and then you no longer live anymore is an interesting idea for a movie, but you need young people that people want to go see.

The truth is that you can spend your life any way you want, but you can spend it only once.

Love is always a miracle, everywhere,every time. But for us, it's a little different. I don't want to say it's more miraculous,...It is though.

When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk to. When enough time passes, what's it matter what they did to you?

A good writer wants from us — or has no right to ask more than — intelligence, good faith and time.

If they'd said, "Do you want to be John Wesley Harding or Wesley Stace in 25 years' time?" I would have said Wesley Stace, but I wasn't to know.

This is a rumour-filled society and if people want to sit around and talk about whom I've dated, then I'd say they have a lot of spare time and should consider other topics... or masturbation.

I make music as good as possible, but I do reference cultural icons, because I want my music to be a time capsule of 2007.

Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.

After all that, you would think daughter would want to spend time with me, but she's busy. I get it.

If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.

I spend as little time with lawmakers as possible. Many are great. And more than you expect want real change. But they're not going to do anything till we, the outsiders, force them to adopt it.

I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.

I like day dates. On night dates, you just go somewhere and start drinking. But if you really want to see if a girl is worth your time, go to a museum or for coffee.

I take as much time as I need. I want to be fresh and smelling good.

I never, ever used my son for publicity. He'll have his say one day if he wants it. He'll have the last word. He has time to defend himself.

Haven't you ever wished that you could steal back just a few hours of your past?" she asked softly. "That's all I want... just a little taste of what might have been.