Sue Bird Quotes

You don't realize it till you get older as an actor, but all the parts you've gotten have led you up to today - good, bad, and otherwise.

I feel like I've lived two or three completely different lives. At 33, I'm quite reflective and have the perspective you get in your old age when you have been through the losses of life.

It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.

I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.

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.

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

I'm so happy in the projects that I'm able to make, to be involved in projects like this. This isn't always where it was at for me, I started working when I was a kid. I'm just a different person now, I'm 30. I started working when I was 11 and it's a different ballgame.

By the time you are in your thirties, most of the time, you've got a job, you can pay for your rent, you can create this nice world around you. And still, you're only in your thirties - you're not that far away from your twenties, which is when you're making all of your stupid mistakes.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

When I see myself at 14 years old I can put my hands on my head and think: 'How could I have done that?' but at that time it had sense for me. You do the same when you're 20. And now, when you look at people who are 20 years old you ask yourself: 'Was I like that? Was I really like that?'

I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.

I think, as I've gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I, more than ever, love what I do.

I'm not silly. I understand that, with age and at different parts of your career, you have different challenges.

I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.

It's nice, though, getting older and being able to do different roles.

I suppose I was much more serious-minded in the '70s and '80s.

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.

I'm so immature and still feel so young. Forty doesn't feel any different than 30 did.

There's a time and place for everything, but as I get older, I like finding those human moments and really connecting. Maybe I'm not as cool as I once was.

It is what it is. I balled out, had some good years, man, had fun and did it with some guys and made relationships that will never end.

When I look back at my life now, I'm not amazed by what I did at 16 to 21.

Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.

There's something to be said about being able to be retrospective about a certain age as opposed to just in it.

I came into this music business at 26 years old. I was a fully developed man at that point. At that age, I didn't have anything to prove.