Steve Buscemi Quotes

When you're young - I probably still am at 23, though I don't feel so young anymore - you have your ups and downs.

I started super young, but when I think about myself at that age - what I thought I knew, and how priggish I was, how certain of things - now I realize that nothing is certain.

I look back at my twenties and see that I was much less confident.

I have a lot of growing up to do. But I think, 'Hell, is it too late?'

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

If you think hitting 40 is liberating, wait until you hit 50; and I was surprised at how liberating it was. The anticipation of something is always much worse than the reality.

I think one of the things about being around for a while and getting to know yourself is that when you do have these positive experiences, you don't take them for granted - you identify them and you make the most of them. I don't know - it's kind of cool getting old in a lot of ways.

As a woman, when you embrace where you are in life, then I think the struggle [life] isn't so hard. If you're 42 and still think you're an ingenue, then you've got a problem.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

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 never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.

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

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.

When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is.

I like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it can.

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

When I was 27, I didn't have a clue what was going on! At that age, to have that much power and to have that much ambition is something.

When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.

I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my own skin.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

The advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You're so full of insecurities when you're young. 'Who am I? What do I have to do for people to like me?' You get caught up in things. You get very emotional about things.

I'm as vain as the next person, but I've made so much fun of myself over the years, and that's very salutary as you grow older.

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

When you become of age, you can sometimes feel like you have to force maturity. I've been lucky that I didn't feel that I had to try. Growth is something that is going to come, you just need to sit back and let it happen naturally.

When I was 19, 20, 21, I wasn't extremely thick.