Brian Cox Quotes

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

Your priorities change when you get older.

The older I get, the more things change as to what is important.

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

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

As you get older, you look at things differently.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

I think you get better as you get older.

Many years ago, I used to say, 'I haven't lived long enough to be great.' Now I don't say that.

As I get older, I've been having a better and better time.

I have to be honest: when you have 70 fights under your belt, your priorities change.

As you get older your own problems are not that interesting.

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

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

You get clarity as you get sober, and you get clarity as you get older.

It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.

Years are not important, my dear.

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

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.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

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'm going to be 60, and I'm almost used to myself.

I get more optimistic as I get older.