30 Years Quotes

Treasures are not for youth; at twenty years of age, one does not know how to be rich, or how to be loved.

One of the lessons that I've learned over the years is to that no matter what my feeling or opinion might be about a given film, once you give it to the audience, they own it.

I've done a lot of collaboration over the years, but right now I'm enjoying writing by myself and just being me again for a while.

After going through years of litigation to get royalties due to him, the guy who coined the term 'happily ever after' lived reasonably well for a while.

I started being a comedy fan when I was, I'm going to guess, like 5 or 6 years old.

Halloween: the day each year when strangers give you even more specific reasons to dislike them based on what they are wearing.

And of course I didn't make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the way I made money.

If it takes me 10 years to be the musician I want to be, great.

When I was four years old, I remember looking in the mirror and running my fingers over my stomach and thinking I was fat.

One of my dreams is to become sufficiently famous that I can play this charity match that happens every year or two with celebrities at Old Trafford, at the house of Manchester United.

I have been housekeeping for 31 years and I learned something new on every page!

An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year - which is far more than the value of the land's crop of corn or wheat.

The sunshine that strikes American roads each year contains more energy than all the fossil fuels used by the entire world.

Campbell [Scott] also directed me in a film with Hope Davis called Final. That was the first thing we did together, but I've known him for years.

I did 12 years with nuns, you know. So I came out of it going, like, 'I think Jesus is all right.' The rest of it I think stinks to the high heavens.

I fell asleep during 'Year One' twice. And my son, who never falls asleep during a Jack Black movie, also nodded off. That's how bad it was. I was incredibly disappointed.

Over the years, I became more and more interested in the forms and techniques in which things could be said.

Among a hundred windows shining dully in the vast side of greater-than-palace number such-and-such one burns these several years, each night as if the room within were aflame.

I used to snowboard 30 days a year. Now its down to eight.

That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do

It took me a few years to realize that throwing harder wasn't always better.

But the biggest fake of the year, Paul Begala's last smile

I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best job in sports broadcasting for two years.

Detroit's so bad this year they might lose their bye week.

For many years, I was obsessed about what I was eating, how many calories it had, and how much exercise I'd have to do.

You have to have the ability to remake yourself. Whatever that is. Every several years... Every five to 10 years.

It's a different story because guess what, the kid is only 28 years old, 28. He's not his dad, not his grandpa. He's 28 years old.

My last year with the Spurs, I was late to practice one time.

I can't believe it. Two years ago I was here as a visitor of Dale Earnhardt Jr. and he invited me to come and stay in his motor home. That's the only other time I've been to victory lane.

I'm from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain't never looked back.

When I made my student film, a feature, nobody wanted to talk to me and I was, like, in the desert for 12 years.

I've been a professional actor now for 38 years. A long time. And it's wonderful to earn your living doing something that you love. To think people actually give you money for it!

I want to play every day. This year will be absolutely no different.

Even through my college years, I was trying out plays and shows, but I never really thought it made much sense to try to be an actor. I thought it was foolish, really.

You just get better with age. You learn yourself and the league. I'm starting to understand more about hitting every year.

It is far easier to explain to a three-year-old how babies are made than to explain the processes whereby bread or sugar appear on the table.

I was in the White House for a year and a half. Up to that point, all my jobs had been very unglamorous.

Most of us have made the mistake that after they crossed the Red Sea they spent 40 years in the wilderness fighting amongst each other.

Shark Tale feels borrowed, sampled and dittoed from the collective funniness of the past 10 years in studio-made animation.

I lived in London for eight years and I like to say that I am two parts American and one part British because I lived there for a third of my life

I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad.

I'm always active throughout the year.

Brain cancer has a latency in the population of 40 years.

I spent six years in the army. That's the reason I am like a drill sergeant sometimes.

I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now.

While we won't be able to help the 10,000 people who died in last year's [Ebola] outbreak, we can do something to save untold numbers of lives in the future if NIH is working at full strength.

Its always been fun for me to play a variety of parts, and over the years, Ive been lucky with the things Ive been asked to do.

In the early years of the Uprising, we survived on one meal a day of horse meat and soup, but by the end we ate only dried peas, dogs, cats and birds.

I spent a lot of time protecting myself. I mean, I've met a lot of extraordinary people over the years - and I just wish I had been able to open myself up to them more.

I am deeply saddened by the tragic loss of my dear friend Ronni Chasen. I have had the honor of working with her for over 15 years. She was one of a kind. I loved her. I miss her.