Richard Rohr Quotes

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.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity.

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

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

As you get older, you kind of take on things and become kind of different than what you used to be as a kid, obviously.

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

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Leia has changed.

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

Everything that happens later in life is appreciated in a different way. You can appreciate the thing for what it is, which you couldn't if you were 25 and had never experienced much else. You would take it all for granted and think that's what life is like.

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

I always had the street mentality, but when you're older, you get more mature.

You know what, being in my 30s is so much better than my 20s.

I've grown up, but not grown old; I hope there's a difference.

Your priorities change when you get older.

We're learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

As we get older, things seem less important.

I hope that I have gained some wisdom, but I don't know. I have kids, and that certainly puts things into perspective. I think I'm a more patient person. I hope I'm a more patient person. I'm a little more relaxed about the peripheral side of this business, which I used to find very confusing and alarming.

I'm a pretty young person, but I think you need a little life experience to actually say something.

I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two I have to stop myself from thinking like a man of fifty who has plenty of time ahead.

You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.

In my long and difficult and mature life, I have come to learn that the less I know about acting and the more I know about everything else, the better I'll be at both acting and living.

I appreciate and enjoy my age.