Drew Barrymore Quotes

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

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

In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

I think I was born aged about 86.

It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired.

Whether you're eighteen or sixty, in a certain way, whatever you know is valid.

Nicholas Anelka - 24 years of age but he's been around a lot longer than that

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?

The man of wisdom is the man of years.

It takes a long time to become young.

I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.

The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.

The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

You get more insight as you get older, on everything.

Getting old is better than being young. You can do what you want to do.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

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

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

I think 60 is when many people hit their prime. We elect many of our presidents in their 60s. At that age, people are full of ideas and their best self. I wanted to dig into my potential and bring out my best self.

I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.