Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

You kind of invite a little spooky, creepy vibe into your whole experience of making a movie. ”

I don't want to grow old gracefully. I want to put up a bit of a fight. ”

When I was a child, life felt so slow because all I wanted to do was get into show business. Each day seemed like a year, but when you get older, years pass like minutes. I wish there was a tape recorder where we could just slow our lives down. ”

My father earned every penny he had, and I would have loved to have bought him a Rolls-Royce because his whole life was cars. Sadly, he didn't live to see the day when I could have done that for him, which still hurts. ”

There are enough tears in any child's life; we certainly don't need to add to them in the name of entertainment. ”

One question hovers over all of us who choose to spend our lives writing: why keep doing this in a world where so many forces are aligned against us? ”

What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment. ”

I actually thought, like, I was sure 'Get Smart' and, like, 'James Bond' movies, I was sure that that's what real life was like. ”

It's not like during your normal day, anyone says, 'How do having meaning in your life? How do you make meaning in your life?' ”

My cartoon life is in my office, and it's very separate and getting very in my own head. My television life is I'm begging one of the actors to say the line in the way I'd like them to. ”