Christoph Waltz Quotes

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

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.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.

Oh my gosh, I'd give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it's going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I've already forgotten.

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 actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

The longer you live, I believe, you learn so much about life that you have more to give.

Just as you get older, you gain more experiences, you see more things.

It's so much more interesting having life under your belt.

The more life you live, the more you are able to understand the experiences of other people. It's one of the few benefits of getting older.

I've known and seen a lot of things over my years.

We're learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.

I had to have experience, you know what I mean? Because I've been doing this since I was 14... I couldn't write about anything at 14. I had to live some life. I definitely lived some life.

As I get older - and wiser of course - I appreciate natural beauty in a different way.

The years don't always add wisdom, but they do add perspective.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.

You get clarity as you get sober, and you get clarity as you get older.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

There's been a lot of really cool stuff that's happened to me throughout my career, and I remember everything, but I don't think I savored every moment of it like I should have or like I do now.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.