Sage Northcutt Quotes

My rookie year, I was very immature.

Reality is, you have to work harder the older you get.

When I became CEO, I just didn't think about my age too much. I'm sure many people did think that my age mattered, but I didn't. That was probably because of my age.

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.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

I've always believed that if you are willing to play your age that you will work, so it's the thing of continuing to play your age and accepting it when you're younger and you suddenly realize, 'Oh, now I'm playing the mom,' 'Oh, I'm playing the grandma.'

Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

I've never thought intelligence was age-related.

I didn't start drama school until I was 20, and I don't think I would have gotten nearly as much out of it had I gone when I was 18.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Well, you know, I'm much older than I look.

Everybody has an inferiority complex when they step into a room. But then when you have children and you get older, it doesn't really matter. When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train.

There's no blueprint for where I should be. I see myself as a young, good actor who still has a lot to learn. There's nobody at any point in their career who is the finished article.

Of course, experience strengthens one later.

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.

The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them.

I was new at my job, and I needed to address my inexperience and weaknesses head-on.

People think you have pressure when you are young. It's the other way round, actually.

It's not easy to change the way you play when you are 30.

When you're 20, you think you know a lot more than you do.

You can't say when you are 25 years old that you know everything. You don't.

The idea that I'm 45 doesn't mean that I have no creativity. I'm like a student: it's the same - it's not a war!

I honestly don't think you're taken seriously until you're 30. Any ideas I've ever taken to the BBC, they've told me I wasn't ready for it.

I made so many mistakes when I was younger.