William Butler Yeats Quotes

Everybody's constantly growing. In your twenties, you can learn a lot, and you can be very smart and clever and savvy. Especially these kids today. They seem like they have it all together. But let's talk to them again when they're 40 years old and see really who they are. Is it who they thought they were at 25?

That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.

"Why is everyone trying to tell me that when you get older it gets better?" I didn't believe it, because I'm so contrarian and suspicious of everything. And then to find that it's kind of true is nice.

As you get older, all the things your parents said to you when you were younger ring true, but when you're younger, you reject them.

The older I get, the younger I feel. Growing up, I was always the kid, but I spoke like an adult and was in adult roles. I didn't feel like a kid. The older I get, I actually feel younger! Which is good. I always thought when you get older, you'll want to slow down, but I want to do even more.

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

Everything changes as you get older - your mind, your body, the way you view the world.

And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to... It's a whole different lens you look through the older you get.

Growing old is not growing up.

There's so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don't matter now.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

When I was young, I had a very clear point of view on things in life, on moral questions. There was a black and white viewpoint on my world. As I've gotten older, I see the grey areas appear.

I think for all of us, as we age, there are always a few moments when you are shocked.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Life has its trade-offs. As you age, you lose things like teeth and the ability to play in the ball pit at fast-food restaurants, and you gain things like experience and employer-based health insurance.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

If you've never been 40, you don't understand how it feels.

I do have to say, there is this incredible benefit to being older. I never thought I'd say that. I've figured out that show business isn't the end-all. I thought I'd never be tired of Hollywood, of the experience, and I have to say there's some relief. As you get older, your taste changes.

I've never been scared of aging.

We're both getting older, our children are starting to leave home. But I can say that I'm just as passionate a songwriter now in my 50s as I was in my 20s. But instead of talking about the general kind of angst that I felt as a teenager, I'm writing about more specific issues.

Most people acquire a softer side with age and sometimes with dad that has been quite weird to see.

As you get older, you grow and you revaluate.

One of the nice things about getting older is that you come to understand that you can integrate multiple aspects of your life together. When you're young, you think everything has to be binary, as that's exactly how you feel at that age.

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.