Will Grier Quotes

I have to remind myself sometimes to look back and see what brought me to where I'm at.

I'm certainly not sorry that there were some things I missed. You may think you're missing something at that time but later when you look at it, you didn't miss anything.

Little Zac had it easy - but he didn't realize he had it easy, so he took it for granted. I think going through 'Hairspray' and other projects helped me learn about the business and life in general.

You tend to take your journey for granted after a while, but when I pause and look back, I feel blessed that I had so many opportunities.

What have you learned from those times when life was easy?

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

Every year, I appreciate life more because of the deeper understanding of what it took to get this far.

I think sometimes in life we rush and only later look back and say, 'Wow, that was something pretty cool that I did,' and we realize we should have been more aware while it was happening.

I don't feel like a very nostalgic person. I think about the past much more clinically. When I look back and wonder, 'Why was I doing that? Was it a waste of time?' I don't beat myself up. Instead, I say, 'I'm so glad I did that, because now I really know what matters to me.'

What I learned on 'To Die For,' I learned over the years that followed, when some memory from the shoot would bubble up to the surface of my mind, and I could see it from a new perspective. I would usually cringe when that happened.

Going back, I wish I could have been in the moment a little bit more. I can't change it, but hindsight definitely makes me appreciative of the moment now - even if it's hard, or exhausting, it's all a part of the experience.

I can't help but be thankful, and really appreciate everything I have been through, good and bad, because it got me here!

It keeps me humble just to know exactly where I came from and all the hard work I had to put in to be here. It feels good to reminisce about the past.

I made so many mistakes when I was younger.

I like the fact I've got a past to learn from, but I don't want to wish my life away, either.

I'm always thankful for the stuff I went through and thankful for the people I've met, and I'm thankful even for some of the bad times because all of it helps get you to wherever you are in your life.

As I've grown older, I appreciate what I had at Lilly even more than I did back then.

As an individual, I've learnt a lot about life - some things that proved to be helpful and some things I wish I never knew.

To have the ability to look back on the problems that weren't big problems after all is something I think we can all learn from.

Don't forget how you got here. Don't Forget.

We need to look back sometimes and realize the past taught us to appreciate our future.

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.

I learned from my past.

But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.