Dennis Quaid Quotes

I just think that things get easier as you get older and wiser and more experienced. You get more confident about who you are as you get older. I find that really comforting.

I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

The advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You're so full of insecurities when you're young. 'Who am I? What do I have to do for people to like me?' You get caught up in things. You get very emotional about things.

I think as I've gotten older and the things I've gone through, I'm not as concerned about what everybody thinks.

The good part about getting older is you stop trying to prove anything to anyone, including yourself. All you are in the pursuit of is collecting experiences - beautiful, fragile little soap bubbles that you store in your heart, and every once in a while you pull one out and gaze at the delicate pictures it shows you.

I made my excuses and left, thinking, really, after a certain age, people are just going to do what they're going to do and you're either going to accept them as they are or you're not.

As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.

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.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

I'm not afraid of a rant, am I? I've got to that point where I've just become a woman; I think I've just grown.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

It's a beautiful thing at 60 to know who you are.

I like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it can.

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.

I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

I think that as you get older, you learn to live in yourself more securely.

When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.

People become more interesting from about 25 - they develop character and their personalities come out.

When you're 22 or 23, you think the world revolves around you, and I felt that way for a long time. But I just turned 30, and I love it! You realize, 'Whoa, baby, you ain't all that.' And you're not! You're just a woman out there doing something she loves.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

When I was in my 20s, I thought I knew who I was. And then as soon as I turned 30, I realized that person has bruises and bumps and dark parts. And you kind of go, well, that's it. I'd rather embrace it than force myself to change.

There's a confidence and sense of self that comes with age that I didn't anticipate.

Growing up, getting older, your age - you get to the point where you're comfortable in your own skin, you know who you are.

I've got so much wisdom and have lived through so much life that I feel more powerful than I ever have.