Elia Kazan Quotes

Who am I to judge is what I say. I'm 90 years old, for crying out loud, and I don't sit in any chariot.

Age brings wisdom to some men, and to others chess.

The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

At my age, you sort of fart your way into a role.

I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.

O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself.

Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

You don't get to be old bein' no fool.

I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.

I'm exploring the maturity, the wisdom that just comes from having gone around the sun 50 times. My experience is, 'Oh, I'm never really going to get it right. I'm never going to get it done. But that's not the point here.' The point is the journey.

I quite like being old.

It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give.

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.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

Age doesn't mean anything. Its all in your head. Men get sexier with age. They also get wiser and get experienced.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'

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 am too old to think.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.