Katie Piper Quotes

I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.

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.

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.

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

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.

Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30.

Maybe in my 20s I was a little more lively. But I'm done with that.

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

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

As you get older, you come to a place in life where you can't just live in the present.

You get to a point in your life where you go, 'I don't remember what I did.'

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it's less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

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.

Getting into your 30s, you don't feel the same as in your early 20s.

What's interesting is that some of the things I'm interested in talking about is a story which has to do with the second half of your life, which can be told through Hedwig's voice because she's older. If the timeline is consistent, she's as old as me.

The only real change in life comes with the consciousness of old age.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me.

To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.