Clint Eastwood Quotes

I'm older, and I wish that a lot of things that I did in my life, I didn't do, but I'm able to talk about it.

We do things in our past that we need to do at the time.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

Certainly, my uni days involved some statements that I wouldn't make today.

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

I have matured a lot.

I became the kind of bishop in my sixties that I hated in my thirties.

It always surprises me when people say, 'I don't regret one thing about my life. I wouldn't change anything because it's all led me to where I am today.' I would want to change certain things that have caused others pain.

I think there's a lot of learning process in figuring out what things you want to do and shouldn't do. Maturing in that way is something that comes with experience and time.

With time, you do get mature.

It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.

You get kinder when you get into my age range. You think back to how really unkind you were, and how cynical you were and how you tossed things away and you tossed people away, and you didn't care because you were climbing some mountain that you thought you needed to be on top of.

I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.

Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.

Now that I'm almost forty, I look back at some of the decisions I made when I was younger - decisions that I thought of as courageous, or generous, or otherwise befitting a writer; befitting someone who had taken it as their life's goal to understand the human condition - and I wish I could go back in time and be like, "Hey, you don't actually have to do that - you're allowed to look out for yourself a little bit."

I wish I had been more self-aware earlier, but I think that just comes with age.

You dont have to get beat up as many times as I did to come to your senses. Certainly I wish Id come to mine earlier than I did.

I behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, then therapy made me realise I had to change.

As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.

I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff. It's funny now to think about it - that a friend getting a job or something had anything to do with me... I think that my relationship with my wife has played a pivotal role in the chilling out of Aaron.

I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.

If a man becomes more mature due to certain episodes in his life, it gives him the opportunity to look at life in a much more deep way. I believe the artist and the man work parallel, with the same feelings, the same soul, the same sensitivity.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong.