Simon Van Booy Quotes

A few years ago, I got to a point where I realised that the only way you can tell someone's age is how they live their life. The candles on the cake mean absolutely nothing.

Years do not always make age.

I also think within the scene, a specific scene - if I were to play a part that I played 10 years ago now, my interpretation of that scene would be totally different. I would be making different choices. Because I can't somehow subtract all of the experiences that I've had in my life. And it's fascinating to see, because somewhere I'm very reflective in that. You know, I've been playing basically actually close to 40 years old, so I'm somewhere lost in age in this movie. But it's been fascinating to see that I can't subtract that time.

The years don't always add wisdom, but they do add perspective.

I get sillier as I get older, so I don't know what wisdom means. I can only pass on something that I've been acquainted with and let whomever it is pick the bones out of it

Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

I feel blessed - I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don't want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I've gained in that time.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

I don't think things happen for a reason, but I think it's perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully.

People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

I don't know why it is, but sometimes I feel like I'm 60. It's like I've been around for a long time. I felt that way even when I was 8.

But I believe the older I get, I'm wiser and I train smarter.

I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.