T. S. Eliot Quotes

Who doesn't change through their 20s? I changed probably more than the average person who lives in one place and has a job. But everybody changes significantly in maturity, we'd like to think, from 20 to 30.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

I've been, like, 15 my entire life.

It's funny how you get a bit older and become more accepting of things. When you're in your twenties, you're skeptical of everything. I definitely felt like that.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

I think, if you put a camera in anyone's life and document it daily from the age of 21 to 27, there are going to be things that aren't always pretty.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot.

One has to evolve with age, and that's what I am doing.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.

It's been fascinating watching all those pictures of me with a lot more hair Jeremy, and looking very young. And we've all got things we've said, twenty, thirty years ago, indeed the whole world has changed since then.

Every situation has changed me as a person.

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.

I'm a work in progress.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.

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

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Even though I'm over 35, I feel like so much more of a leading lady than I did when I was 30.

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

You can't be 16 forever.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.