Noah Baumbach Quotes

I think that everybody kind of changes a lot between the time they're seventeen and when they're twenty-one or twenty-two.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

I think I've changed a lot as a person.

Life is definitely always about expanding. That's how we grow.

How does anybody change from the time that they're 18 till they're 25? Everything kind of changes. You see the world much differently, and you get your priorities in order a little bit more.

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.

Success did change me. You don't want it to, but it does.

I needed the 'Chuck' phase to appreciate the 'Captain Awesome' phase because otherwise I don't think I would have realized the flip side of that coin. I think I needed to see the world through Chuck's eyes before becoming Captain Awesome.

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

Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.

I was such an idiot until the age of 28.

I've changed a lot, too! I'm different, too. I have far more in some ways to offer and far less in other ways to offer. That's life. And, you know, life goes on!

By the time you are 30 you are still trying to make your 15-year-old self happy but you are a different person. You need to be brave and let go of that.

Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

Linking up the things you were with the things you become is what growing up is.

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

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

You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.

A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It's like we need more than one hair-do. We have many, many changes in the evolution of our lives. We have, we learn, and we grow; we view life differently, and life views us differently.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.

I'm always changing. I still have the same morals and values and foundation of who I was, growing up in Jacksonville, FL, but I'm such a different person from who I was when I was 17. You live and you learn and you grow.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.