Quotes About Realization

I think back and marvel that my ambitions were so small.

I don't think I would have made for a good doctor. It was not meant to be, and it took me a long time to realize that.

I expected results.

Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.

I didn't think of myself as beautiful, but, in retrospect, I guess I was.

Sometimes you revisit things and relationships, and then you get going on in it, and you realized that there is a reason this ended.

Eventually your boobs grow and you can't run anymore, and that was a really rude awakening.

I knew there was no Santa when I was, like, 5.

It is very satisfying to see that my dream of LED lighting has become a reality.

You come to a point where you realize your work doesn't save you.

It took a while before I could sit across the table with Mark and not, every three seconds, think, 'I'm talking to Luke Skywalker.'

I felt like it was a great secret when I found out that I could be in my 30s.

There was a point when it all really took off and got quite overwhelming, even though I didn't realize it.

Over a period of time, if you have a successful show, then you have a devoted audience. I feel you owe something to them. That goes for everybody - writers, camera operators, actors, studio executives, etc. Sadly, I've realized it's a responsibility that very few people live up to.

A Bar Mitzvah is the time in his life when a Jewish boy realizes he has a better chance of owning a team than playing for one.

Because I'd done 30 plays or so at Oxford, I thought that I was an actress anyway because that's what I was doing!

Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it.

I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that... but that's what it did.

I backpacked around the world and went to places like Mexico City and Pakistan, where I'm like, 'Oh. Things aren't quite as good.'

Have you ever had that moment when you looked back on something and said, 'Well, gosh, that seems obvious now... why didn't I see it then?' I like to call this the Face Palm Epiphany. Oh, hindsight, you magical, humbling thing.

I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!

I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it.

It's just nice to see something from paper come to life on the screen.

Witnessing the bond between a parent and their little ones firsthand really brought home to me how much I was missing.