Miriam Makeba Quotes

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.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

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.

As you get older, you learn there are some things out of your control.

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

Oh my gosh, I'd give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it's going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I've already forgotten.

The worst thing about age is not quite being able to do what you once did. The best thing is learning to accept what you've got and what you are.

I've experienced the highest of highs and been in every single position, and that has taught me so much.

Learning to live with the given is the great humbling educational process of life.

You make your own kinds of mistakes, and I’m sure you’ll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never your problem, sweetie. You have a better chance of making this work than most forty-year-olds I know. My little middle-aged child. Luckily, you seem to have found another old soul.

I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.

I'm exploring the maturity, the wisdom that just comes from having gone around the sun 50 times. My experience is, 'Oh, I'm never really going to get it right. I'm never going to get it done. But that's not the point here.' The point is the journey.

As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

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

Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.

The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.

If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.

I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

The older I get, the more relaxed I am.

The more you've lived, the more you've experienced, you emotionally know a lot more, especially if you haven't had a regular, straightforward kind of life.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.