Stella Adler Quotes

Stay innocent. I'm 69 years old, and I'm still innocent.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger.

I suppose you always look back at how easier things were being young. There's always a shame that you're not as naive as you were.

Who is old enough to have learned from experience?

There is no such thing as the old age of the wise.

Years do not make sages; they only make old men.

I quite like being old.

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

I don't know why it is, but sometimes I feel like I'm 60. It's like I've been around for a long time. I felt that way even when I was 8.

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.

I've always played way older than my age. It's the experience behind my eyes or something.

I must take issue with the term 'a mere child', for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really - most of them are a pain in the butt. People depend on me more; they believe in me more, they think I'm good.

A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.

As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like 'older and wiser' and 'respect your elders,' promoting age as something to be cherished and respected.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!