Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Eric Roth

When I met Richard Leakey, I thought, 'This is the most charismatic man I've ever met.' He has no legs. He lost them when his plane was sabotaged. But he's an interesting, sort of narcissistic guy.

The wish fulfillment of growing younger is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be. You have new problems that arise which you are not anticipating and you deal with the same problems you would deal with if you were ageing normally: what is the end of life about? What have I accomplished?

Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can.

I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed, is you.

She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody.

Benjamin, we’re meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?

You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.

You never know what's coming for you.

I think part of being a good screenwriter is being as concise as possible.

For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.

Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.