Quotes About Wisdom

For me, I'm smart enough and have been around the business long enough to know you don't really retire.

I think I should stay retired.

Even though I'm retired for some years now I still have something positive to say to kids. And they still listen.

I learned very early that you don't get time back. I'd miss my children growing up, so that's the reason I retired.

In any walk of life, it's very easy to judge people's actions in retrospect.

You should never reveal your true age.

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

I put all my big revelations into songs when I was in my 20s; as you get older, revelations are harder to come by.

Know not to revere human things too much.

I want to be revered. I want to be an elder; I want to be an elderess.

Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

A learned man has always riches in himself.

Just because people are older, they don't have the right to tell you what's right and wrong.

When you're a kid, you don't know what's right and wrong, so you kind of just have to listen to what they tell you, and I'm just fortunate that I had people around me who knew what they were talking about.

When you're dropping back and everything's going on, part of you wants to force it, but you have to make the right decision and not force the ball and sometimes throw it away.

I don't know that I would say I've felt like a 58-year-old, but I've never felt exactly my age, or in the right place.

You have to make the right decisions and make it at the right time.

I just know I can't force things. I've just got to play the right way, make sure I'm making the right play at the right time.

To get past a rival you have to be smart.

I learnt a thing or two about acting from theatre actor Robin Das who is from Odisha.

Those 'Rocky' endings are great in the movies and on the stage, but I don't think it would be too smart for me to get into that kind of fight in the ring.

Two of the best roles I've ever had have happened in my late 40s.

I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively.