Jake Gyllenhaal Quotes

I think for all of us, as we age, there are always a few moments when you are shocked.

I'm much more introspective than I was, say, thirty years ago.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

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.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

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

As you get older, you're always maturing, you're always learning something new about yourself.

Along with age comes more confidence, so it kind of works out.

I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.

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

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 I've gotten older and my life is a lot more stable, I've gotten more into storytelling.

I think I've got wiser.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

If you've never been 40, you don't understand how it feels.

As an actor, I'm not sure what I had to offer the world of tragedy and comedy when I was 21. I hadn't lived a whole lot. By my middle 30s, you know, I had been knocked around a little bit.

With time, you do get mature.

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, the things I'm sure of become fewer.

In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.

I'm older, and I wish that a lot of things that I did in my life, I didn't do, but I'm able to talk about it.

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry, no longer'; 'I'm sorry, not yet.

It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.

When I was 40, I used to wonder what people thought of me. Now I wonder what I think of them.