Barry Hannah Quotes

When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

There's a reason God didn't give me this success in my 20s, because I'd have blown it.

If I had one regret in life... it's that I was not more humble at an earlier age.

In my long and difficult and mature life, I have come to learn that the less I know about acting and the more I know about everything else, the better I'll be at both acting and living.

The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.

I was always proud of being tough-minded, and I think I still am, but in my old age I've got a little softer in the head, and that's all right.

I would say I grew without a doubt. My whole energy in life - as an artist and as a person - has definitely got me smarter and wiser.

I learned that I'm not young enough to think I know everything. Honestly. I think you hit a certain point in life where you expect that you have so much to learn, and you may think that you've arrived, but you have kind of just begun.

In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

It's a good thing I learned some humility and perspective as I got older.

I believe that writing for me is in a way like wisdom; in that as soon as you feel like you've got it figured out you stop growing and maybe even lose something.

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

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

As a young man I prayed for success. Now I just pray to be worthy of it.

What happens when you get to the age of 60 is that you have no more doubts. I know why I'm here on this planet. I know what I need to do. I know what is a distraction and what isn't.

I feel like I've matured more musically than I have personally. But I totally embrace what becoming older has to offer. I find the wisdom that comes with each passing year is a trip.

When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.

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.

I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.

With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

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