Quotes About Experience

I softened in my old age.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

For me, old age is just something that happens.

I'm getting older and mellower in my old age.

I have gained no wisdom at all in my old age, but that's the only message I have. It's down to you, ultimately. It really is.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

When I was old enough to ride a motorcycle and got my license, I bought a '69 Sportster.

Right now, writing for me is most rewarding because I'm old enough now to have something to say, which probably wasn't always the case.

'Hairspray' was my first Broadway show. In the meantime, after the show was over, I would go down and do gigs at these clubs that I wasn't even old enough to get into. That continued on, and I think what ended up happening was that I just got these incredible opportunities on Broadway.

It's funny landing parts now where I'm somebody's mum. I remember the first time I was asked to play a mum. I was easily old enough, but because I didn't have any children, I thought, 'That seems really grown-up.'

I never think I'm old enough to play someone's dad, even though I have a daughter of my own and a grandson.

I'm old enough to remember seeing James Brown live.

I remember being in jail, like, 'Man, I'm not old enough.' And then I thought, 'I just turned 18.' I had just turned old enough to be in big people jail.

I remember Nigel Martyn joking with me at Leeds, saying he was old enough to be my father, which he certainly was.

I think age is just a number - if you are young enough, you are old enough - as long as you are good enough, age shouldn't come into it.

If you're good enough, you're old enough: that's what everyone says. When a talented young player emerges, his age doesn't matter; people want to see him in the team. So why, when you become older, is the assumption that you are no longer good enough?

Ever since I've been old enough to shave I've been playing clubs.

I'm old enough to remember the '70s. The '70s is a different time.

Peggy Atwood, Alice Munro, Hugh Hood, Michael Ondaatje - these are all old friends from my early 20s.

I came on to Twitter in my 50s and I sort of think that was perfect. I am just a ranting old lady really and I like it.

Intellectually, I am already an old man. But in the sensory area, I am still such a child! I shuffle on my bottom between the two.

If you think I'm a drunk, you shoulda seen my old man.

I, 100 percent, feel like an old man, but I love it. I watch the news; I'm up early.

I just do very old man, adult things.