30 Years Quotes

I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.

My radar, after all these years of sanity, is still off when it comes to what people do or don't mean.

I would say at the moment the only person who could have played me this past year would have to be Angelina Jolie.

Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments the gods remain deaf to the agony of the human race.

You have opened up the prison gates of my womanhood. And all the passion that was unsatisfied in for me so many years, leaped into a wild reckless storm boundless as the sea.

I can be 100 years old but I will always be proud to say I was in Harry Potter.

If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write.

I genuinely haven't really had a rebellious phase. I think it's just because of the way I was brought up. I think it's because I left home when I was ten years old.

After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.

The crucial people to get your product started for the first 6 months are not who will be using it 3 years later.

Consistency is one of the hallmarks of my career. You knew what you were going to get out of E-Smith every game, every year, no matter if I was 22, 21 or 35 years old.

Christmas seems to start earlier and earlier every year. Like, this time, it's on December 25th.

After forty years of marriage we still stood with broken swords in our hands.

People are afraid of you, Arty. Girls are terrified of you. You’re a fifteen-year-old in a bespoke suit, and nobody died.

A fifeteen-year old, of to save the world, with faries. - Angeline Fowl

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.

I think I wasted a lot of my youth, falling for girls who were a couple of years older than me.

When I shoot I'll take my family with me - one movie a year and then the rest of the time at home.

I knew a bit but we don't study a lot of British history at school in Australia. We have our own 50-year period to concentrate on.

My wife and I are parents to a 4 year old and a 2 year old. It's really important for me to always be there for bath time and breakfast time and on the weekends.

Take a job, do it for ten years and work at it, and you'll succeed. Can I just add, take a job that you enjoy. If you don't enjoy the job, it's going to be a decade of hell.

I think it's better to be involved in one or two movies a year.

As we commemorate his birth each year in our holiday celebrations, we should remember that our joy in his first coming should prefigure the even greater joy we will feel at his Second Coming.

I remember in 1990, there were five of us making $3 million a year. When guys passed us, we didn't cry. Why would we cry? You didn't get mad when someone got $6 million. Or $8 million.

The poster art over the years, art with social critique in it, has always been trying to make that point - that we are larger than they are.

I think that what I'm doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me off that course.

I used to have a house in London, but couldn't face 20 more years of St John's Wood in the rain.

I don't necessarily know much about comedy, I don't spend a lot of time watching it. Mainly because all my life for about 50 years I've had comedy.

From birth to the teenage years, the brain undergoes a fourfold increase in volume

We're fifteen to twenty years out of date in how we think about renewables.

I always get a little uppity when I hear the phrase 'TV actor.' It's like saying you're a magazine reporter. I was in the theater for ten years before I ever had a TV audition.

Back then, all the networks were still making a movie a week, virtually. So I did five of them that year. So it was just a nonstop... '92 was a great, nonstop ride in Vancouver.

[Townies] was a great springboard, obviously, because Jenna [Elfman] went from that to Dharma & Greg, and a few years later, Lauren [Graham] went to Gilmore Girls.

I made Lost World in September of '91, and by the end of that year, I was living in Toronto.

You make a lot of mistakes. I haven't seen that movie [The Lost World] in 20 years. But if I saw it, I'm sure I could pick out a whole lot of mistakes.

I'd never been to Africa. This really was my first film [The Lost World]. I'd done 10 years of stage. I'd done a little bit of television. But this was my first film.

I did have a dog for a few years when I was little, but then just really had cats until I was about 21.

Around 400 million people in the last year got a smartphone. If you think that’s a big deal, imagine the impact on that person in the developing world.

I've been directing more and more the last few years, I find it an enjoyable challenge.

I studied piano for many years, and I still play. I'm a complete amateur, and I wouldn't consider myself very good at all, but I enjoy it.

This is your year to accomplish what you've never accomplished before.

We all have one thing in common: Happy New Year! It's a clean slate.

I tell young people all the time because they think I'm an overnight success I've been doing this for over 20 years! And that means inspiring and motivating people.

There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure to repetitive imaging.

You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.

I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.

At about twelve I just knew, something clicked, and I knew I wanted to be an actor and my parents, to their credit, granted this 12 year old girl a chance to give it a try.

And I'm hoping that over the next 20, 50 years, whatever, the mystique of television and film and all that will diminish somewhat, and people will leave us alone to get on with our jobs.

I've worked for years with Michael Kors, and he's just like this funny, charismatic guy.