Me Quotes

I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor.

~ Ryan Gosling

No matter what your age is, you only have now. So it's always about living in the moment and being in the moment... I refuse to let those numbers define me, and I just try to face each day positively.

~ Christie Brinkley

I wrote a screenplay for a 'Sweet Valley High' adaptation, and it's really amazing to me how many women who are my age have responded to the idea and are excited about the movie.

~ Diablo Cody

The first thing I bought that was really stylish was in 1969 when I was eleven. I saved up for a black, grey and white tie-dye grandad vest. It was too big - they weren't catering for kids my age - and hung off me, but I loved it.

~ Paul Weller

I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.

~ Bonnie Raitt

You hit a certain age and - especially because of TV - the young cooks coming up say, 'You're a sellout, because you're doing something other than what you should be doing.' 'Top Chef' is a double-edged sword for me: There's a whole group of people who will not come to the restaurants because they assume I'm not in them anymore, all I do is TV.

~ Tom Colicchio

I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.

~ Eddie Murphy

I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me.

~ Patty Duke

A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to have intellectual and spiritual conversations with someone who was on the same page as me.

~ Nick Cannon

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

~ Brandon Boyd

Basketball has consumed me since the age of 7 or 8. I don't know what I would do without it.

~ Rick Pitino

I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.

~ Alan Kay

I was 3 and a half, and there was an open call for a Coca-Cola commercial. We were living around Dallas, and my mom took me. I think they were calling for 16-year-olds that could ride horses and swing a rope, and for whatever reason, my mom took me up there when I was 3. But I always had a rope, and I was a little cowboy at that age.

~ Jesse Plemons

I hid the fact that I had an aneurysm for a very long time. I was embarrassed, and I just felt like no one needed to know because it made me look weak. Who would of thought someone my age, at 23, had a brain aneurysm?

~ Tamala Jones

I never really felt like my age stopped people from wanting to work with me. I was speaking at conferences and lecturing at universities at 18, and I think that was mainly because web developing and management was a really young industry.

~ Matt Mickiewicz

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'

~ Claude Pepper

For me, fitness is not just about hitting the gym; it is also about an inner happiness and an overall well-being.

~ Rakul Preet Singh

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

~ C. S. Lewis

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

~ Kanye West

To me, flowers are happiness.

~ Stefano Gabbana

I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.

~ William Clay Ford

I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.

~ Nicki Minaj

Success to me is only two things: happiness and stability.

~ Kehlani

For me, the opposite of happiness isn't sadness but boredom.

~ Sushant Singh Rajput

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

~ Denzel Washington

I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five. My life has taken some turns and changes that I didn't anticipate, and it has brought me different things. I thought material things would bring me happiness, which they didn't. But through this, I have learned what things are important and what aren't.

~ Tom Ford

Happiness for me is the people whom you love, love you back.

~ Jorge Ramos

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

~ Nelson Mandela

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

~ J. D. Salinger

The happiness I feel in having a family has brought me a real beauty.

~ Kate Winslet

For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness.

~ Matthew Stewart

I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome.

~ Helen Mccrory

When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.

~ Arthur Ashe

When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.

~ Tom Ford

Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I'm doing, God is pleased with that. It's complete peace for me.

~ Tyler Perry

For me, happiness is doing my best and trying to be helpful.

~ Ken Kercheval

I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to they ask me to.

~ Brenda Fassie

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

~ Herman Hesse

So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.

~ Olivia Wilde

I used to let other people's struggles affect my happiness. If they weren't happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn't happy, I didn't want anyone around me to be happy.

~ Joyce Meyer