Iman Quotes

I'm far more comfortable in my 40s than I ever was.

Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

I'm not afraid of a rant, am I? I've got to that point where I've just become a woman; I think I've just grown.

I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

The advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You're so full of insecurities when you're young. 'Who am I? What do I have to do for people to like me?' You get caught up in things. You get very emotional about things.

When you mature, you also get more secure about yourself. You see things differently.

Everyone talks about how, in your 30s, all of these growing pains transition into wisdom and you feel more self-assured and confident, but I think I had a bit of a jump-start on that at 27.

I think as I've gotten older and the things I've gone through, I'm not as concerned about what everybody thinks.

Am I completely indifferent to criticism? No, not at all. But I know who I am and I have learned to respect and care for who I am.

Believe in yourself and try not to take anything personally.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.

I haven't always been the person I am today. I came into loving myself more than anything or anyone else.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect.

I'm definitely a lot more comfortable now in my 40s than in my 30s - that's for sure.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.

You know, once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself.

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

It's a beautiful thing at 60 to know who you are.