Quotes About Time

I think in your 30s you can still pretend you're in your 20s, or at least maintain some semblance of youth. Forty is when you've got to stop denying the inevitable.

You feel you can pretend to be young until you're 50, but after that, what happens and how do you approach it?

We actors do this to pretend, to go into imaginary circumstances, so when the imaginary circumstance is of a different time, that just compounds the joy of doing what we do.

A period piece is a great opportunity for an actress. I love acting because I love to pretend, and when you're doing a period piece, then even the time you're in is pretend, so there's that much more to play with.

It sounds pretentious to say I 'divide' my time, but when I am home, that usually means my house in Atlanta or my cabin in the North Georgia Mountains. The latter is where I do the majority of my writing.

If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.

I try to limit my time with Michael Davies to as little as possible per week, and he is pretty good with that, since he has a bazillion things to do. When I do see him, I try not to talk about dental work or anything like that because I know the Brits get very sensitive.

I think I'm just a comedian who's a pretty good con man, and I don't see that changing any time soon.

The only time I ever think about getting old is when I look in the mirror. I feel pretty good about it, actually.

'Priscilla' was made in 1994, and I think it was kind of daring for its time.

Each day is a different length of time and that gives a different length to the cusp between light and darkness or darkness and light.

As a darts player when you're away, you're in your room 90% of the time, going to play darts, back to the room, sleep and play darts, that's the way it is.

The biggest challenge in big data today is asking the right questions of data. There are so many questions to ask that you don't have the time to ask them all, so it doesn't even make sense to think about where to start your analysis.

The image of my face I hold in my mind is always about 10 years out of date.

I haven't had a date in 26 years.

In my mind, I've always checked out in 2037; that's always been my expiration date. I'll be 75.

If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

You date somebody, and you have this obviously intense experience where you share a life together in whatever way that is for how many years.

There's always time to date.

When you have kids, it can be hard sometimes because you've got to find creative ways to spend time with each other. So with 'Lights Down Low,' I wanted to just write about all the things that we do to try to keep the love alive in creative ways, because you can't always go out on a date... but you can make a date at home.

When you look at my father's works, he systematically dated everything. He also wanted to document what he knew would be the work of the century.

I wanted to make a record that people could put on year after year after year, and it would never feel dated.

I've only had one serious boyfriend, but we dated for three years.

People put dates on any kind of comment that you make.