Marie Dressler Quotes

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

My life experience has made me realise what's important and what is not.

When I was younger, I took everything seriously, and I still do to some degree.

It's a good thing I learned some humility and perspective as I got older.

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

When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.

I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups.

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

There's a reason God didn't give me this success in my 20s, because I'd have blown it.

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons.

If I had one regret in life... it's that I was not more humble at an earlier age.

You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.

As you get older, you come to a place in life where you can't just live in the present.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

I appreciate what I have a lot more than I did when I was younger.

When I was younger, I took life much more seriously.

I think at the age of 30, you still have youthful aspects, but at the same time, you have gathered enough experience to know how to succeed in life. I like this mixture.

Sometimes you need a humbling experience to think about a few things.

As you get older, you realize happiness involves a lot of problems.

I've seen a lot of things and I've experienced a lot of things.

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.