Ingrid Bergman Quotes

I do not ask to be young again; all I want is to go on getting older.

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

The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom. And as much as the youth-glorifying Hollywood would like us to believe, it's nothing. They're wrong.

I've never been scared of aging.

As you get old, you live and learn.

I'm older and older. With any experience you have, you know more about yourself.

The great thing about getting older is living life.

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

I've played Big Bird for over half my life, and now I'm in my 80s. It does feel older than 79. Someone said it's just a number, and I said, 'No, I genuinely feel older.'

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

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.

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

I love getting older!

I'm just getting older and better.

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

I'm tired of playing people who are complete washouts and bums. I don't mind waiting for the good ones to come along. It's like age. It's never bothered me. I've even forgot my birthday. Many times I've wondered if I should tell my real age, but now I think it's an honor, to be doing what I'm doing now at my age.

I love getting older.

One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

I guess getting older has its benefits, one of them being perspective.

The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained -- at last! -- the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence -- the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.

There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.

Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting older than we pretend. It was interesting to me when I first started working on this book that I'd mentioned that I was writing a memoir about aging and everybody would moan and groan and carry on.