Emily V. Gordon Quotes

After choosing football so many times, I feel like I'm inclined to make the right decision by finally choosing my family first, and that's real talk.

We all have them, those parts of us that are the greatest parts of us and the worst parts of us. Sometimes we're put in circumstances and bad choices are made.

I don't know... I think I'm quite extreme... When I act, I have to immerse myself into the character... otherwise I can't act... In my private life it's the same... I think.

If you say that you're all about a certain something, and look back and see that the choices that you've made don't reflect that, then there's something for you to look at.

My goal in life is to make decisions that minimize regrets. I don't regret anything I've done.

I'm easy driving, But I'm not a person who loves living pleasantly above all else. I'm not that way at all. I might think I'm that, but I'm not really that.

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.

But unfortunately, in my unrelenting drive to get back on that drum stool, the major casualty in all of it was that I really forgot about me.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.

I see my face in the mirror, and I said, 'No, my ambition is not to be an actor.'

You're writing your life as you go - the question becomes, how do you want to write your life?

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

I have no regrets in my life whatsoever.

There's no point thinking, 'Well, my life's certainly worked out, I've got all the answers.' It would be wrong for me to say that I don't get seduced by certain things. That things don't become tempting.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

I'm honest about the journey I've been on, so I definitely don't take dating lightly anymore.

I'm probably not long-term-relationship material for now.

I don't think my life would be significantly poorer if I don't impersonate Nick Clegg. Life is short enough without sitting up night after night listening to tapes of him.

Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?

I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Dating has taught me what I want and don't want, who I am, and who I want to be.