Quotes About Wisdom

I don't do anecdotes. I accumulate experiences.

In an animated film you can do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean you should do everything you want.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I'm not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

You know when you have a child and then as you get older, your parents start becoming more like your friends and then telling you things they wouldn't have told you when you were 14 or 15, answering questions about the past or whatever.

Being a writer but also having been raised the way I was, I tend to turn to books for answers.

I don't have all the answers.

There are no sure answers, only better questions.

I wish I knew at 14 not to put much thought into what other people my age said to me, cause we were all looking for the answers. So I wish I knew that other people really don't know any more than you do!

You don't have to have all the answers all the time. But the best thing to know is what you don't know.

Sometimes God answers our questions with questions.

I'll never know everything. My life would be a lot worse if there was nothing I knew the answers about - and if there was nothing I didn't know the answers about.

If I see something in somebody, if it's something similar in my shot, I feel like it's the same type of thing in life. People who tell you what to do all the time or have all the answers for you, it's like, 'OK, whatever.' But if you've gone through something in life, you can speak to something a little more.

The Bible is the book I read. It's got answers for everything.

A grandparent can be simply affirming. A grandparent has been there, done that child-raising stuff, and has the wisdom of experience. And so in some ways, they're free to love without the anxiety of being the actual parents. They're free to give.

I have no advice for anyone on how to live.

I don't sing as well as I used to. Nor does anyone else in their 60s.

I'm not a reader myself, so I don't expect anyone else to be.

I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.

Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

It feels like as you get a bit older, you've worked out the things that are good for your life apart from with acting.

I've been blessed enough where all the rules that come with age don't apply to me. People were saying I was old at 32.

Sometimes when you look back, you think I wish I would have played this hand differently or that hand differently. But then you have to understand that you can't go back and to focus on the present. Whether or not you're applying the lessons you've learned from mistakes you've made in the past.

You appreciate things after you lose them.