Mohsin Hamid Quotes

A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

Some days, you feel like a 22-year-old and some days you feel like a 40-year-old.

Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.

I'm the first to admit that I'm still pretty young.

I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever - I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me.

I've grown up with kids watching me and as they're growing up, I'm growing up.

You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?

I'm not sure why I still think of myself as 28 - maybe that's the point where you start growing up, and then you just feel the same for evermore.

Now that I'm 40, I knew I wasn't going to pass for 25.

You picture yourself as being 22 always, and so it's very bizarre when you're not.

Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.

I feel like a young man of 15.

I was young - I was 20 years old. Now I have the gift of perspective and I feel pretty good about it.

I was shooting one day and it struck me that I was the age that Shirley MacLaine was when she played my mother. I had to sit down. I had to get a chair, okay? It was a weird moment.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

I'm a lot older than I was when I was 30, which is kind of hard to believe.

I feel a lot older than I am but at the same time I don't want to play too old on T.V. I still want to be young. I still want to be 20 and enjoy this period of my life where I still have that flexibility.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

Maybe this whole obsession about colouring our hair is about our inability to grow up. To let go of the fact we aren't children any more, and the whole thing about changing our faces and looking young, and 60 being the new 40, is maybe we don't want to let go of our childhood.

With each year that's gone by, and as I grow up and get older, I've become more mature, of course, but you have a sense of who you are, and you find confidence in that.

I think that ultimately your age is determined by your attitude. It's not the number; it's not how many wrinkles you have on your face. It's the energy that you project.

I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.

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

I have people in my life who will say, 'Honey, you're trying too hard.' I like being saucy, but I'm 73 and a half. I'm still trying to find my way between matronly and coltishness.