Patty Duke Quotes

As I get older, I'm more comfortable in my skin.

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.

Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

It's not that anything has changed about me, and, it's a cliche, but I think that as you get older, you learn to accept who you are, and you feel more comfortable in your own skin.

When you get into your 40s, it's all about lighting. It's hard. You have to face whether the way you look is your self-worth or not. Once you get beyond that, it's all about what's in your heart.

I've learned to accept who I am.

It took a long time, and a lot of years, for me to get comfortable with myself, like the way I am now.

I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me.

Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'

I wish I knew at 14 not to put much thought into what other people my age said to me, cause we were all looking for the answers. So I wish I knew that other people really don't know any more than you do!

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

I've gradually grown more comfortable with who I am and what I am.

I'm finally just relaxed and comfortable with who I am.

Sexy at the millennium means having a solid sense of self but never taking yourself too seriously.

I know who I am and I've always been comfortable in my own skin.

I completely think of myself as sexual. Completely and utterly. Probably more so than I did when I was 30. I don't know why. I'm very comfortable with how I look. I'm absolutely committed to never having anything done to my face. I would never let anyone near me with a Botox needle.

The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.

My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect.

I've become more confident as I have got older. I care less what others think.

I'm okay in my skin, you know... I'm okay with who I am.

When you get older, you feel better about yourself. You're not worried what other people think about you, in general. You just get more comfortable in your skin.

Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.

I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.