Cynthia Nixon Quotes

Age is rarely a limitation to being a mentor.

When you're older you want to learn from other people.

When you've lived as long I've lived, you see things from a bigger lens, and you try to share that with the young guys coming up, including being patient.

I understand that there's a certain energy in youth, no question, in terms of pursuing jobs. But there is wisdom in age. It's too bad that the two can't come together because I do think that people are dropped from what they're really good at too soon.

I have a great affinity for senior citizens.

You're never too young or too old to be a mentor.

I get free life lessons from J-Hope and Jimin; sometimes it's like they're 10 years older than me.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

I don't feel like a grandmother. I don't.

Tommy Smothers is my longest mentor, and Dave Eggers is my youngest.

I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally.

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

The truth is that the actresses who I look up to are either my age or a few years older or a lot older.

As I get older, I want to draw on my experience to make roles better. I see that in the older women who inspire me - their experience makes them better.

It's healthy to have older friends. You go, 'Look, I'm younger than them!' That's always the nice thing, if you can be the youngest one in the room at times. Like if you're always the oldest one in the room, you'll start to feel like the oldest person in the world. So get older friends, because they're cool. Get cool older friends.

And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.

I like older people; I think older people have a lot of flavor.

I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life.

Obviously, we live in a society where ageing is feared. But, to me, the alternative to getting old isn't that great. I've got friends much older than me and much younger, and I love that. It means you get to teach as well as learn.

I don't care if someone is new to acting or experienced in acting: you always learn something from them. It's just like people in life - whether they're young or middle-aged or old, you always learn something from someone.