Quotes About Experience

I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.

It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, "What should I write at the age of sixty-four," but never, "What should I write in 1940."

One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.

Years do not always make age.

My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.

A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.

I'm gonna enjoy being old I think I'll be awesome at it.

He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.

I don't mind being it [age 60], I just don't like saying it.

In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.

Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skills.

I was a full foot taller than any child my age.

Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.

It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.

Horses and jockeys mature earlier than people - which is why horses are admitted to racetracks at the age of two, and jockeys before they are old enough to shave.

For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.

Now that I'm over sixty, I'm veering toward respectability.

It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!

My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.

Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.

I am always baffled by age, but to be honest with you, I feel like I am about 34. I feel better now and I am certainly healthier than I was in my early 30s. I am more rounded too.

I'm tired of people questioning me because of my age. If you looked at my numbers and watched me throw and covered my birthdate, would age be an issue?

Do you really expect me to say gravity hasn't taken its toll? No. But as I'm earning these lines [in my face], I'm making an aesthetic choice.

Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage.