Quotes About When I Look Back

#1. Probably the most fun I've ever had, actually, acting. Because it was the perfect extension of the stuff that I'd started to do on Late Night With David Letterman, and when I look back on all my work, it was probably the best possible incarnation of Chris Elliott, of me.

Chris Elliott

#2. Sometimes, it's better to bunk a class and enjoy with friends, because now, when I look back, marks never make me laugh, but memories do.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#3. My adolescence was quite miserable, when I look back on it, at least my early part of my adolescence. Because there was anti-Semitism in Peoria, and I didn't feel that when I was in elementary school.

Betty Friedan

#4. I have made many mistakes and done a lot of foolish things, but when I look back on the person I was, I feel affection for him and laugh at him.

Thomas Moore

#5. I think the '80s created me, in a way, when I look back on that time, but I don't necessarily think that a lot of my choices, and a lot of things that I did, and a lot of things that happened to me - or I let happen to me - were about that decade.

Bret Easton Ellis

#6. When I look back on my life all I see is the pain I experienced through it all; how I wished for death to come take me and relieve me from all the hurt inside.

Natalie De Clare

#7. I used to routinely turn down things that might compound the impression that I was some kind of vacuous blonde. But now, when I look back, I think I should have done them because I would be very rich - being taken seriously isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Mariella Frostrup

#8. When I look back on my marriages, or the breakups, sure I know the pain I went through, but that's part of life and it has its own value.

Rita Hayworth

#9. When I look back, I can say that the summer when I was 19 was a formative time for me. But at the time I just thought I was making tofu every night for dinner and going to work.

Zoe Kazan

#10. My parents weren't at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up to entertainment.

Bonnie Hammer

#11. I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.

Ann Rule

#12. When I was painting, I was painting stories I was telling myself. When I look back at it, moving to writing was a very natural progression for me.

Janet Evanovich

#13. When I was 20 I was like, 'I'm not a teenager anymore. I got this.' But when I look back I'm like, 'Oh no. Oh no. You did not.'

Cassie Scerbo

#14. And when I look back I recognize now that I indeed do come from a large family of artists. Whether they necessarily realize it or not.

E.J. Bonilla

#15. When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.

Frank McCourt

#16. When I look back and reflect even to this day I made the decision to stop feeling sorry for myself and to move forward even when I felt like I didn't want to

Shellie Palmer

#17. Everything we come across becomes a part of us. It doesn't matter how small or insignificant it is ... or how devastating. One story here, one story there, that's what I see when I look back at my life. An accumulation of everything I went through.

Bhaskaryya Deka

#18. When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.'

Lana Parrilla

#19. When I look back, I can which year it was not from events or the actual date, but the way I was feeling.

Emma Woolf

#20. When I look back at what musical theatre music and show music meant to me, first of all - more than anything - what it meant to me was work. As I was growing up, I realized that singing and performing was my strong suit.

Jason Mraz

#21. I find it interesting when I look back at songs and it's what I've been thinking and feeling for the past two years. There's some sexual stuff in this record and I'm sometimes like, "Is that too far?" There's a confidence in it. It's over-sharing, but in a really therapeutic way.

Elena Tonra

#22. Drinking's funny. When I look back on it, all of our important decisions have been figured out when we were drinking. Even when we talked about having to cut back on drinking, we'd be sitting at the kitchen table or out at the picnic table with a six-pack or whiskey.

Raymond Carver

#23. When I look back on my life, I don't have regrets about what I didn't do. If I'd become a musician, it could have ruined my life.

Clint Eastwood

#24. When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness, ... then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift ... every minute could have been an eternity of happiness! If only youth knew! Now my life will change; now I will be reborn.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#25. I'm sure once my career's over, when I look back when I'm older, I can maybe appreciate it a little bit more.

Mats Sundin

#26. When I look back on everything I've done, it all somehow makes sense to me. But it doesn't make sense when you're actually doing it.

Robert Longo

#27. In my Olympic history I don't think I have achieved my potential as an athlete. That's what I want when I look back at my career. I want to be able to say I gave it my best shot.

Paula Radcliffe

#28. When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life, I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time.

Jamie Cullum

#29. When I look back I can tell that after I started having a family, I certainly wanted to make games that could be played with all the family members.

Shigeru Miyamoto

#30. When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

#31. Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I've been through has prepared me perfectly for just what I'm doing now.

Warren Farrell

#32. When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast.

Roger Clemens

#33. When I look back now, it must have been like Paris was at the time of Le Sacre du Printemps.

David Baker

#34. When I look back now I realize I was such an obnoxious kid but, you know, I went to schools like you, like a public school in New York so compared to the anarchy that was going on there, they really wouldn't - I wasn't like a bad kid. I saw people come in and punch the teachers.

Colin Quinn

#35. When I look back over my career, having an opportunity to compete against really good players like Lester Hayes are some of the highlights.

Steve Largent

#36. When I look back at the pictures of our blended family the day Vince and I married, he and I are smiling, and all the children are frowning.

Amy Grant

#37. When I look back at it now, my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes.

Robert Carlyle

#38. When I look back at the Christian faith, I see that we have had to retranslate, almost reinvent ourselves a number of times.

John Shelby Spong

#39. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil.

Haruki Murakami

#40. I just ... my childhood seems, when I look back, to be largely composed of reading, lying on the bed. I mean, my mother was always shouting, 'Go outside!' But she shouted it at all of us. I think I was just kind of ... rather an introverted child, probably.

Helen Garner

#41. When I look back at football, I've always said to myself, 'I'd rather leave the game and have something in my tank rather than have left all of me out on the field.'

Richard Seymour

#42. God, I realize they need me, but even more, they need You. I need You because this mothering thing is awesome and hard. When I look back, I won't remember the days. I will remember the moments. And I'm thankful for that because, believe me, there are days I don't want to remember!

Kristen Welch

#43. When I look back at my childhood on the Ayrshire coast, I recall a basic devotion to the idea that human nature and national character are as unknowable as the weather's rationale.

Andrew O'Hagan

#44. Most people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but when I look back at my life, I don't think very much about those years. I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.

Frank Abagnale

#45. I started lip-synching with "Losing My Religion." There were a few horrendous mistakes we made, but I own those mistakes. I'm embarrassed by them. I always say when I look back at anything I've ever done, it's with equal dollops of humiliation and triumphant glory.

Michael Stipe

#46. Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it's always been there. It's been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had.

Janet Jackson

#47. So now, when I look back, all I see is who we used to be and who we are now. And I wonder how anybody can recognize anyone at all.

Susan Pogorzelski

#48. When I look back at my career as an author, I don't look at the first book that was ever published as to where my career began - I look to the first book that I ever wrote.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#49. Each second is rather torturous, as though it will never move on, and as though it will never get any easier, and yet when I look back on it, look where we are. Two weeks on. And I'm doing it. And I still believe I simply cannot.

Cecelia Ahern

#50. When I look back at it, I'm mostly amazed at how poorly it was shot. David Kelley is a great writer, and I thought the scripts were great, but it just looks so cheap.

Peter Berg

#51. When I look back on it now, I am so glad that the one thing that I had in my life was my belief that everything in life is a learning experience, whether it be positive or negative. If you can see it as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive.

Neve Campbell

#52. Really, when I look back on it, I did exactly what I had set out to do. I changed my life. I woke myself up. I rediscovered passions of every variety. I forced myself to take a little time. I found a way to bring some of who I used to be into who I was.

Katherine Center

#53. When I look back on the townscapes now, they do seem to me to recall certain images of the destruction of Dresden during the war.

Gerhard Richter

#54. When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school.

Dave Lombardo

#55. When I look back, I didn't take care of myself at all.

Joe Cocker

#56. When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd.

Stephen R. Covey

#57. An Olympic medal won't define my whole life, although it might look like it to onlookers. When I look back, I should have been able to get an Olympic medal.

Paula Radcliffe

#58. When I look back at what I've written and try to explain it, it doesn't help, but it helps to be in a process of writing. It's the same thing with reading - you lose yourself when you read as well. When I was younger I used literature that way, it was just escapism, a tool to run away from things.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#59. When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.

Greg Kinnear

#60. I really didn't even have time to get that many lessons, to be honest, because I was suddenly on the road. I was kind of thrown in the deep end. But that wasn't a bad thing when I look back at it.

Caroline Corr

#61. My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back, I see a pattern.

Benoit B. Mandelbrot

#62. When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.

Maya Angelou

#63. When I look back at the world championships, I know there's a lot of room for improvement, I'm always up for a challenge. The Olympics, they don't define me, I've had some good and some bad. But it's all about the Olympic experience.

Michelle Kwan

#64. When I look back on my life-and an extraordinary transformation is happening again to me right now - I describe it as my "point of observation" is moving. It is moving because my range of frequencies I am accessing is becoming greater. It's not because I'm something special because anyone can do it.

David Icke

#65. When I look back, I can see why people thought I was aggressive. My first single, 'Do It Like A Dude,' resulted in a lot of misconceptions about me. I'm confident - but I'm not arrogant.

Jessie J.

#66. Sometimes when I look back on myself on those earlier records, there was so much effort going in, so much trying. With this, I was trying to make it much more laid back.

Kate Bush

#67. When I look back to when I had my first son, I was unhappy. I couldn't understand why the weight wasn't just falling off.

Nicole Sullivan

#68. I've been really fortunate that I've been at a lot of critical crossroads in my musical journey. When I look back, there are some pretty interesting things to look at.

Robbie Robertson

#69. When I look back at many of the moments of wonder, awe, or terror that I've got from science fiction, it's often been because I've been put in the head of one of the characters.

Alastair Reynolds

#70. There's something I forgot to do. I know I left something I didn't mean to.But when I look back in the rear-view mirror, no one's there. There's nothing at all. Nothing.

Alexandra Bracken

#71. When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.

Patrick Marber

#72. When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.

Lorna Luft

#73. Time is a curious thing. When you have it before you, it's something you take for granted and it moves slowly. Then, as you get older, it accelerates. When I look back, it seems such a long distance travelled, so long ago, so dream-like.

Bernard Sumner

#74. When I look back on my reading habits when I was really young, I was really drawn to stories about strong girls who in some ways are outsiders.

Jesmyn Ward

#75. I was the worst kind of fool. When I look back on that August night, changed forever by all my wounds and all my suffering, that undamaged Odd Thomas seems like a different human being from me, immeasurably more confident than I am now, still able to hope, but not as wise, and I mourn for him.

Dean Koontz

#76. So when my film career took off, I always felt like I was trying to play catch-up because I hadn't studied acting before. I didn't know how to manage money or my career. When I look back, I think I was a little bit shell-shocked.

Lea Thompson

#77. At all events, when I look back upon the boy I was, I see the beginnings of a real person who fades little by little as manhood arrives and advances, until suddenly I am aware that a stranger has taken his place ...

Winston Churchill

#78. Sometimes I imagine myself looking back on right now and I think like where will I be standing when I look back Will right now look like the beginning of a great life or ... or what

Jennifer Egan

#79. When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that?

Cynthia Payne

#80. When I look back at experience [with my father], all I can do is feel pity. You know, how torn he was about how to act, what to say. And it seems an important story to me.

Paul Auster

#81. When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn't had to make that sacrifice, even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me.

Marlo Thomas

#82. When I look back at the way that I was in that documentary I cringe.

Benjamin Cohen

#83. When I look back on the stuff I used to wear, I wonder why somebody didn't try to stop me. Just a friendly warning, "You may regret this," would have been fine.

Ellen DeGeneres

#84. Sometimes, when I look back over my life," said Hannah sadly, "I do not think of all the people who harmed me, but quite often of all the kindnesses and wish I could go back and say 'thank you' properly." She

Marion Chesney

#85. When I look back on my twenties, I just remember being afraid of everything, and in my thirties, I'm actually excited by things. And if things don't work out, you know, by the time you've hit your thirties, you've had your fair share of disappointments.

Anne Hathaway

#86. When I look back now, I realize what a trial I must have been to my friends and relatives. It was one frenzy after one elation after one enthusiasm after one hysteria after another. I was always yelling and running somewhere, because I was afraid life was going to be over that very afternoon.

Ray Bradbury

#87. But when I look back I can't call myself unlucky. My 23rd birthday was December 14. In these years I have had more than most people get in a lifetime.

Ernie Davis

#88. I was a big light heavyweight but I feel perfect at heavyweight. When I look back at some of my old fights, I was really just a shell of myself. Now I'm healthy and strong and ready to get to the top.

Antonio Tarver

#89. When I look back on my career - if that's what it is - it looks a bit like a crazy quilt, and I think it's just really because, when one job has finished, I've never really been in a position where I had three or four options.

Alfred Molina

#90. When I look back, I don't have regrets. In the moment I am really, really hard on myself, I'm definitely my own worst critic and can be my own worst enemy, and I'm trying very hard not to be that.

Emma Stone

#91. When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises.

Richard Russo

#92. When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened

Winston S. Churchill

#93. At night I leave the lights on in my little house and walks across the flat fields. When I look back from a distance the house is like a boat on the sea. It's really the only time I feel safe.

Will Graham

#94. Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#95. I never plan anything in an analytical way before I shoot, but when I look back there seems to be kind of a primary color palette.

Alex Prager

#96. I want to be one of those moms and women that when I look back, I know that I always stayed focused.

Ciara

#97. Yeah, like, when I look back on my life, I just remember back what happened in '74, or something. It seems like only the real good stuff comes to mind. I don't think of all the tragedies and all the funerals. That just doesn't come to mind at all. I guess I'm really blessed that way.

Gregg Allman

#98. When I look back on my life's greatest traumas ... I see that each one has something in common. No matter how life-shattering they felt at the time, there was an end to them.

Anna Maxted

#99. When I look back, I did what I had to do for business and then fit family life into it.

Jerry Reinsdorf

#100. When I look back on the years of excessive self-doubt, I wonder how I was able to make my paintings. In part, I managed to paint because I had a desire, as strong as the desire for food and sex, to push through, to make an image that signified.

Miriam Schapiro