Jenny Offill Quotes

I am what I am - which is I have aged.

I warn people, your 40s will require massive amounts of humor and humility.

As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?

I think you sort of shed skins as you go along in life. You get into your 40s, and you feel like, 'OK, no more pretending.' You get to just be who you are.

That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.

I was 24 yesterday. Suddenly you wake up, and you get on the elevator, and there's a mirror there. And you look in the mirror, and you're an old man.

I love getting older!

I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable.

One of the greatest things about getting older as an actor is that you settle into who you are and you don't begrudge everyone else what they have.

Just getting older, you stop caring what other people think, but also, you know who you are, and you know what you want.

I'm getting older and I'm just coming to terms that I'm stuck with me so I better try to like myself.

Growing up, getting older, your age - you get to the point where you're comfortable in your own skin, you know who you are.

The great thing about getting older is that you learn not to care about being cool. I'm happy with who I am, I know what I like and I can't see myself changing… not for a little while, at least.

When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

I am every age, up to my own.

When you're younger, you tend to be reckless about trying to find out who you are and what you can do and should do. But as you get older you become more accepting of yourself, and with that comes greater contentment.

As a woman, when you embrace where you are in life, then I think the struggle [life] isn't so hard. If you're 42 and still think you're an ingenue, then you've got a problem.

One of the good things about getting older is you find you're more interesting than most of the people you meet.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

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

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.

I said 'No, I've aged, but grown up? No'.

I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older.