Miriam Margolyes Quotes

I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.

I don't think you are truly successful unless you are a happy person and are happy with your life. I know many people who are professionally successful but miserable.

I feel blessed - I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don't want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I've gained in that time.

I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.

I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live.

I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.

I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.

I barely got out of high school, and I look back at my life often and go, 'Wow, this was awesome!'

I'm almost shocked that I'm still around after all of these years... and always grateful that I get another turn to do something.

The worst thing about age is not quite being able to do what you once did. The best thing is learning to accept what you've got and what you are.

I love getting older.

I'm grateful for the experiences I've accumulated. Of course, there are certain things you wish were not on anyone's list of life experiences, but it's a life. It's a good life. And I like what's there.

I'm so sad that I'm old enough to play, and I'm so grateful that I am. All that clichéd things, you really do learn something if you get the luck of being able to hang around. Even if it's a rough ride, you learn.

The older you get the more you try to appreciate what you've accomplished.

I wouldn't change a thing in my life, even if I could. What you go through makes you who you are and that's fine.

I have been blessed to have experienced so much in my short lifetime.

I'm actually excited about turning 60. I feel on top of my game.

What decisions would you make differently today if you knew you would most likely live to be 150? How would you think about your 50s or 60s? How would you evaluate your career arcs or investments or even the area in which you live?

I just appreciate still having the longevity that I've had in my career.

You can take what is handed to you and use it as an excuse to mess up. But I've always handled what was given to me by life. I consider myself lucky. I was never lied to. And I was loved.

I am so grateful, without sounding cheesy, to have such amazing friends with me and to have a career that's going so well.

A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.

Every year, I appreciate life more because of the deeper understanding of what it took to get this far.

I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.

I'm really grateful for how my career has unfolded.