Jennifer Coolidge Quotes

The good part about getting older is you stop trying to prove anything to anyone, including yourself. All you are in the pursuit of is collecting experiences - beautiful, fragile little soap bubbles that you store in your heart, and every once in a while you pull one out and gaze at the delicate pictures it shows you.

I was 30 when I did 'The Matrix.' When you turn 30, your life and your world view change. I remember feeling relieved - it was like I was seeing things in a deeper way.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Everybody's constantly growing. In your twenties, you can learn a lot, and you can be very smart and clever and savvy. Especially these kids today. They seem like they have it all together. But let's talk to them again when they're 40 years old and see really who they are. Is it who they thought they were at 25?

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

The feelings we all have as 50-year-olds are different than the feelings we all have as 30-year-olds. That informs everything we do.

You go through life and learn valuable lessons.

I've learned a lot. I've seen a lot. I've grown a lot.

You make your own kinds of mistakes, and I’m sure you’ll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never your problem, sweetie. You have a better chance of making this work than most forty-year-olds I know. My little middle-aged child. Luckily, you seem to have found another old soul.

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

And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

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.

I'm enjoying 40. Old enough to know better, young enough not to care.

The biggest thing as I have gotten older is the calmness that's come over me.

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

I think the older you get, the more you know about life, and the more you learn about yourself and you become comfortable in your own skin. So the older I'm getting, the more fun I'm having.

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

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

I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.

There's so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don't matter now.

I'm a late bloomer. I believe 40 is the new 19.