- Nov 07, 2020
Time Quotes
Quotes marking moments across time.
This page brings together quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family. It pairs well with Family Quotes for related reflections.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been doing all my school plays, elementary school, middle school, and high school, and then summer. I'd wanted to act for a long time, and I thought I was going to go to college and do theater, go that route. But 'Superbad' kind of fell on my lap. I was very, very lucky for that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I reached the sixth form at my local grammar school, my father would glower at me every time I passed him with a stack of books under my arm, warning me there was no money to go to university.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some novel lovers have no interest in comics, and some comics fans would never take the time to read a novel.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent more time in America, but I developed a very English sense of humour. I clicked into it deeply with Peter Sellers, who is still probably my favourite comedian.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process.
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- Nov 07, 2020